Thank you for that.
I will direct my question to you, Ms. Illingworth, as well as Dr. Gill. Perhaps both of you could address this issue.
It's certainly one important step to pass a law, but it's another to make it operational in terms of making it an effective tool for law enforcement. When we look at upper jurisdictions, we have not seen a significant uptick in the way of prosecutions and convictions. For example, in the United Kingdom at the end of 2018, there were only just over 9,000 offences of coercive control in the context of two million incidents of domestic abuse in that year, and only 308 convictions.
I guess there are some practical issues at play in terms of how law enforcement can lay a charge and how the Crown can successfully prosecute these cases. Can you speak to some of those challenges and how, if this or a similar bill were passed, this tool could be an effective one to deal with this serious issue?