Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for your excellent testimony.
I'm not a permanent member of this committee, and when I do come, there are some very heavy topics discussed here. Certainly this committee and the witnesses who come here deserve a lot of credit for their courage in bringing these issues forward, which, in my opinion, should be much more in the forefront of our political discussion than they are currently.
I have a number of questions for a number of you.
Madam Singh, thank you for your testimony. You asked at the end why abusers are only in jail for two days, two weeks or two years. I believe you said that they should be in jail for a lifetime, and that if they were, violence would be ended permanently. You also made the point, which I thought was quite a good point, that the violence lives for a lifetime with the woman who has been abused and her children. That was the sort of argument you made.
If you could design the justice system with women, victims and their children in mind, what specifically would you change about it? I know you have said that you would keep the abusers in jail forever. That's not necessarily an option—perhaps it is—but are there other things that you would do? Are there other things that you would do to fix the justice system?