Chair, through you, if I'm understanding correctly, we have seen an escalation in violence this year, at least in my community, in relation to intimate partner violence. For example, so far this year, we've had three attempted murders in relation to that, while we had zero last year. We've had 11 incidents of firearms being used in intimate partner violence. That's up from four last year. We're seeing a cycle that hasn't changed. We've seen a significant increase in assault with weapons causing bodily harm, which is up from last year.
I think you're onto that cycle of violence we spoke about in the first round. How do we intervene? How do we stop it? It's one thing to put a point on it right now, in terms of Criminal Code offences, bail and sentencing, but if we don't get down to prevention among the people perpetrating it or who may be likely to perpetrate, it doesn't matter what we put in to this end; we're not going to break that cycle of violence. Sadly, I think we know what happens if we don't put those pieces in place early.