Thank you very much for the question. I appreciate the opportunity.
This is interesting. Asking if this defence should be available in other situations is a good question for us because it all comes down to the systemic issues that we have at hand here. I would like to say that the majority of people who commit sexual assault, for example, are men. In these types of situations with these men, should that type of defence be available? It should absolutely not be because the women are at most risk in this type of situation. But in other types of situations—let's just use the exact example that you just gave but with a woman—we would say let's think about that. There should be, perhaps, more opportunities for this person. They should be able to use extreme intoxication as a defence.
Then it comes down to this big systemic issue that we have at play here, which is the fact that these laws are not being looked at through the lens of violence against women. I think it is really important to think about how we protect women in this situation. How do we protect specifically indigenous women and racialized women, and what does that look like? I don't think it's a matter of whether this defence will be good in some situations, and whether it will be a good idea to allow this defence here but not a good idea to allow it there, because it's way bigger than that.
I'm going to put a period at the end of my sentence there.