Thank you, and thank you to all of our witnesses for being here with us to answer some questions on this important topic.
You have all expressed the great concern with coercive control. We all agree that it's an extremely important thing we need to look at. It's the first step in an abusive relationship, so it could definitely escalate and become violent and much worse, and it has major psychological impacts on women and children.
Does everyone on the panel today agree that coercive control needs to be criminalized? You can all respond.
I see nodding everywhere.
From what I understand and from the conversation that has been had so far, currently it is not seen or recognized as an actual issue, so if somebody does report it to the police, it's just not considered and nothing is done about it.
We have spoken about parental alienation as well. From what I've heard now, psychologists are the ones who kind of... Can you clarify?