Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
We have learned a lot today. When I first heard about this coercive control law, I thought, yes, we need a law. I was hearing that great things happened in the U.K. and all these other countries, but then today we heard that out of all the people who come forward on coercive control, only 6% actually get a prosecution going on. When they looked at 700 cases, out of those prosecuted, only 3% got a conviction. That really worries me. If you think about people who have the courage to come forward on coercive control, and then you think of the justice system and the delays, those people are very much at risk from an escalation of violence from that intimate partner during that period of time.
Mr. Roebuck, you said that the “evidentiary burden” on victims is high. You also talked a bit about primary prevention. Can you elaborate on those two things?