Randall Garrison at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

Thank you, Ms. Ritchie.

I want to turn to Ms. Coyle.

Again, thank you for being with the committee again. I was hoping you would be here even though I know—and knew in advance—your position on the bill.

I guess I'm going to ask you somewhat argumentatively.... Some people say that what we have now is a failure to recognize coercive control as violence. Therefore, rather than create a new criminalization, what we're doing is taking the point at which we criminalize and moving it from bruises and broken bones to the behaviour that leads to the bruises and broken bones. Therefore, it's not a new criminalization but a moving of the point at which we recognize that the behaviour is criminal. What would you say to that argument?