Thank you very much for that. I appreciate you both for being here.
Ms. Mattoo, in full disclosure, my wife runs two legal clinics where she serves primarily women and mostly marginalized women. My background is as a Crown prosecutor. I listened with intent to both of you and to what you had to say. I found it very interesting.
I'm trying to decide where to start, because there's so much.
I know that when Ms. Parsa was speaking about this, she spoke a lot on coercive control. Generally, if I took those comments correctly, it was that the law should not be the primary mechanism by which we deal with intimate partner violence and coercive control. There should be a rededication or redirection of resources.
In these situations, the law is reactive. You're speaking about something proactive. Should we not be reacting to the situations of coercive control that statistically and in my experience lead to and perpetuate what I would call—and what others have called—the cycle of violence?
Feel free to answer that.