Thank you, Madam Chair.
Ladies, thank you for your testimony today.
To the ladies representing the Salvation Army, I'm still a little shocked by these figures you provided in your opening remarks. On the other hand, as more and more cities and municipalities declare intimate partner violence to be an epidemic, it's not all that surprising. These figures confirm that the situation is a plague. Perhaps they even represent only the tip of the iceberg if we take into account all those women who dare not denounce the violence they suffer.
Ladies, we've met a few times and I've seen all the work you do, including on the matter of human trafficking. Last night, I attended an event and came away with a document that explains all the work you do to help victims of human trafficking and domestic violence escape. On the same occasion, you invited me to visit a Salvation Army shelter in Montreal in the near future. If I were to visit this shelter, what more could I learn about coercive control that might be useful to our current study?