Thank you for that referral.
I'm not sure how much time I have, but I'm here today to speak to what I know the committee is interested in, which is existing criminal coercive control legislation that's in place in various jurisdictions. The U.K. is one of them. Is that something that you would like to hear about? I see nodding.
Before I comment on the criminal coercive control legislation, I'd also like to note that the concept of coercive control has been used in other areas of the law as well, for example, in family law. My colleague Claire Farid is here today, and she can comment on that if that's of interest to you. I think it probably would be.
In the criminal context, coercive control offences criminalize a pattern of conduct—