Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The long definition section that deals with all the definitions that relate to family violence and other forms of threats is amended by my proposal, which remains gender-neutral. I want to stress that.
What it does is import to the legislation the understanding that threats of violence can include threats made through cyberspace or on Facebook pages. A number of witnesses we've heard here have made the point that cyber-violence is actually one of the main forms of family violence now. To make that explicit, threats on Facebook, threats through texting, threats of sending intimate photos, and so on, are an important area of psychological violence and can lead people to suicide. It's a real threat, but it's much less personal than our conventional understanding of threats of violence, so I would urge the committee to consider this amendment favourably.