First of all, I thank you, Randall, honourable member, for your question. The feeling of respect is mutual. I really appreciate your opening comments and I thank you for them. I share the same feelings.
We're open. This would be in collaboration with both Minister Monsef and Minister Blair. That would be my initial reaction. Certainly, anything that we can do to help reduce intimate partner violence is something we would look at very seriously.
We have invested, in particular through Minister Monsef and WAGE—I know that's an unfortunate acronym—during the COVID period in trying to reduce intimate partner violence. It has been identified by a number of experts as having been exacerbated by the pandemic, and by the confinement in particular. We're sensitive to that.
I will undertake to look at that suggestion and that private member’s bill very carefully.