Thank you.
My thanks to the witnesses for being here with us today for this important study.
As I say at the beginning of every speech, I would like to stress that we all support the objective of this bill, which seeks to combat violence against women, forced marriages and forced child marriages. Everyone supports an objective like that. The debate is more on the approach to the issue and the measures we are equipping ourselves with to combat those situations.
My question is for Ms. Costom or Mr. Edelmann. I'll let you decide who is able to answer it.
Today, a witness talked about female genital mutilation. I know that a minister has already indicated on her website that Bill S-7 will provide the tools to counter that type of mutilation. Can you identify measures in this bill that will specifically provide tools to fight against that type of practice?