Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This motion would require a review of the bill's proposed coercive control of intimate partner violence five years after the bill would receive its royal assent. This new clause would require the review to include consideration of criminalizing coercive control in relationships other than intimate partner relationships, thus allowing the time for law enforcement to be trained on the existing offence before expanding the application of coercive control laws.
This incremental approach is consistent with the fact that some other jurisdictions are taken into account. They've enacted coercive control offences, because it allows time for study and training for law enforcement, both of which have been critical to ensuring implementation of the offence consistent with its important objective of always protecting victims.