Ms. Ellen Wiltsie-Brown at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

Of the stakeholders who supported or engaged in the “alternative for coercive control” events, one significant concern was implementation by law enforcement and criminal justice practitioners, and including a list in the offence itself would help guide the application but not limit it. It would ask criminal justice practitioners to look at this type of conduct or similar conduct. They also referenced the human trafficking offence, which has such a list and which the Ontario Court of Appeal has since developed further indicators for, so it did not limit it. It has continued to expand as they see new cases and new abuses of vulnerability.