This is how we do it. This bill is an educational tool.
For three months I've been on radio and television saying, “Do you know what is happening in Canada? This is the law. This is...”.
These tools are educational tools that would help us prevent it. We don't have to open up new jails to put new immigrants into jail. That's not the point. The point is you're coming to Canada and these are the laws and you ought to know that.
We said 30 years ago that if we talked about domestic violence, immigrant women would hide, they would never come out, and would never talk about it. Today more immigrant women than ever in the history of this country are coming forward and reporting domestic violence.