Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I won't take too much time on this, because members of the committee have had this amendment in their hands for over six months. It was tabled on November 8, 2022, and I'm assuming all members of the committee have done their homework, since they have had six months to look at this amendment and ask questions about it. It comes following the briefing from the National Association of Women and the Law regarding the issue of protection orders.
You will recall, Mr. Chair—although I wasn't a member of the committee at the time; Mr. MacGregor was—that the National Association of Women and the Law said that protection orders can be given different names and take different forms. Because of that, they wanted to make sure there was a common definition. They recommended the following definition for protection orders, and you'll see listed there that a protection order means:
a probation order, an interim order, an order to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace, an injunction, or any other order made by any court in the interests of the safety and security of a person. It includes an order prohibiting a person from
Then there are six subclauses basically dealing with stalking, harassment and violence:
a) being in physical proximity to an identified person or following an identified person from place to place;
b) communicating with an identified person, either directly or indirectly;
c) being at a specified place or within a specified distance of that place;
(d) engaging in harassing or threatening conduct directed at an identified person;
(e) occupying a family home or a residence; or
(f) engaging in family violence.
I think their brief was clear. Their recommendations were clear.
Members of the committee have had it in their hands for six months, and so I move that amendment.