Thank you, Madam Chair. My first question is for Jennifer.
You made a comment about education. I think that's important. We do have to educate not just the men in our lives, but also the judges and the lawyers to better understand what coercive control is. I'm going to refer to the importance of this on behalf of the children because they end up being the victims as well as the mothers in all of this.
I'm going to take you to an event that occurred on Christmas Day in December 2017. Chloe and Aubrey Berry, ages six and four, were found by police in a ground floor apartment in Oak Bay. They were murdered by their father. If you read through the court case, the mother was continually trying to advise the courts and nobody listened.
What advice would you provide to the courts today? This is just one of many cases that occur. How can we change that to criminalize the father, because we're not protecting our children?