Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for sharing their views on this important topic.
It would be impossible to think that, by simply waving a magic wand, we could eliminate violence against women, which has become an epidemic.
I think we need to conduct this study with the utmost care and, as much as possible, look to what other jurisdictions are doing to form our opinions. I'd like to come back to that.
My question is for Ms. Silverstone and Ms. McManus.
You talked a lot about where things stand in other countries, and my fellow members asked questions about that.
As far as you know, are things going fairly well in countries that have criminalized coercive control, in spite of the concerns some had beforehand? Have any of the countries tried to walk back their legislation because they were sorry they criminalized the behaviour?