Thank you so much.
My first question is for Madam Parsa.
I know that in the Senate committee on November 16, 2022, your colleague Rosel Kim stated, “Ultimately, electronic monitoring is a reactive tool that provides a false sense of security for many survivors and does not address the systemic causes of domestic violence or the underlying issues that survivors face, like isolation and the lack of resources.”
I know we've spoken about.... Other witnesses have indicated that certain groups, such as indigenous groups, are oversurveilled. We know through the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls that when there are issues of safety, the very systems that are supposed to protect us don't. We're oversurveilled, and when we need support, we're not. Because of this, we've heard there's distrust of current systems. Now we're supposed to rely on those very systems as the main tools for safety. They have been proven—we know through research—not to protect us.
Can you expand on how electronic bracelets may be reactive tools that don't address the root causes in our current systems, which are perpetuating increases in intimate partner violence?