Certainly, Madam Chair. Thank you for the question.
It's an important question, because once again, I think the committee is focused on writing legislation that will somehow magically make this problem disappear and prosecute people. Even new legislation is going to require evidence. Evidence comes from witnesses. Witnesses who are safe and secure and receive proper supports in telling their story tell the most effective story—compelling stories. Those stories are what inform judges, what causes them to adjudicate matters, what causes them to find guilt in appropriate cases where elder abuse has happened.
What you need to do is to fund the same thing in the domestic sphere. You need to provide support to people to help these victims tell their stories. You need to provide resourcing to police divisions, to police associations, to police forces, to allow them to videotape that testimony so when issues of competence arise later, that videotaped testimony can be introduced under section 715.2 of the Criminal Code.
I see that I'm just about out of time.