In terms of the causes of the gender-based violence and intimate partner violence, it's very well documented from various researchers that mental health, addiction, poverty and homelessness all go hand in hand in terms of the experiences of the survivors and the perpetrators who commit these crimes.
In the conditions that are being proposed in the recognizance, I didn't see anything proposing that there will be attention paid to all of those supports, along with other conditions that are being proposed. That's where my submissions were; they were around the fact that you can't really solve a problem by just putting on more restrictions and impositions and making it a more criminalized environment for people instead of actually giving them supports to rehabilitate themselves. That's what the basic ethos of the criminal justice system is.