Thank you, Madam Chair.
In two and a half minutes, I'm going to have to ask a simpler question.
With regard to the five-year sentence we're talking about, you are therefore proposing that a person guilty of this type of conduct should be liable to a five-year prison sentence.
In Scotland, among other places, I know that the sentence for this type of behaviour is 14 years. On the other hand, our criminal code provides a number of different penalties for all sorts of offences or criminal acts that may be related to or may be akin to controlling or coercive behaviour.
I'd like you to tell me about the exercise you did, your thoughts on the proposed sentence.
How did you come to decide that the Criminal Code should impose a sentence of 5 years rather than 1, 2, 10 or 14 years?