Thank you, Madam Chair.
Ms. Collins, thank you for your appearance here at the justice committee and congratulations on getting a private member's bill to this stage. That doesn't happen every day.
I want to ask a question on a couple of things. Your bill applies to partners who are together— married, living together, dating—but also to those who are former partners and have been separated for less than two years. When we studied this issue, we heard about the particular vulnerability when they're under the same roof and that maybe there should be a time afterwards for this to come into effect.
What is the origin of the two years? What informed that decision? Why not one year or three years? How did you land on the two years?