I will obviously be offering no legal advice this morning. However, I can tell you about what we're hearing in the various tribunals.
First of all, there's the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which we're discussing today. It's one of the tribunals.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has also issued numerous recommendations on the subject over the years. That committee requested that Canada repeal section 43 of the Criminal Code in 1995, 2003, 2012 and, more recently, 2022, I believe.
In addition, many papers and considerable research in the social and medical fields indicate that corporal punishment has a harmful effect on children's cognitive and emotional development.
So there are collateral factors that also support the repealing of section 43.
I don't know whether my colleague would like to add anything.