Minister, I'm going to take a little bit of a circuitous route, but I promise, if I could have the chair's indulgence, to bring this back to the bill. I'm going to give you a factual scenario that came up in case law in 2021. I want to get your comment on it. Then I will bring it back to this bill. It's a case that troubled me.
Minister, I know you can't comment on specific cases, but what I'm asking you to do is comment on the legislative framework that permitted the decision, in a case called P.R.J., by the supreme court in my home province of British Columbia. It was a case in which a mother offended against her daughter sexually. The daughter was seven or eight years old. There were two charges—invitation to sexual touching and sexual interference. The case went to trial, meaning that the seven- or eight-year-old had to testify. The mother was ultimately convicted. The sentence was a 23-month conditional sentence order after trial, with 12 months of house arrest, for a sexual offence against one's child.
Minister, do you have any comment on the legislative framework that permitted this?