Thank you, Madam Chair.
I just wanted to clarify, because in saying that we heard from witnesses who want this bill unchanged, we ignore the fact that almost half of the testimony was hearing witnesses talk about how change to this bill is absolutely needed before we allow it go to forward, and those were people who worked with under-represented groups, with Black women and indigenous women and women who are overrepresented in prisons. I think it's important that we are making these changes.
Now, going back to the actual amendment on the floor, we have been told by the legal team here that this doesn't exclude victims of IPV, so it's not that the victims themselves cannot come forward and ask for this. It's that we're increasing the chances that they will actually get a peace bond because more than just one person can go and ask for it. It's anybody who may want to go and speak on behalf of the victim if the victim is feeling afraid of doing so herself.
Thanks.