Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Instead of trying to extract an answer about harsher punishment, I'd like to talk about prevention. I'd like to talk about a situation that I have some experience with. It's a situation where you can't really increase the punishment because the behaviour in question may not be illegal, but it is elder abuse.
Older women living alone are often the victims of people going around selling electricity and natural gas contracts, even though that is not illegal and there's nothing in the Criminal Code you can do about it. If you understand the market, they're overpricing the risk of future price fluctuations in electricity and natural gas. It's pretty hard in a court of law to send somebody to jail because they sold something for a price that was high. I say this because people try to do this all the time.
Is there a role for an office like yours to help prevent that kind of elder abuse?