Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to go back to Mr. Pierre Brochet.
You mentioned that coercive control should be criminalized. I believe that was your statement. I hope I'm correct.
My concern is this. In the previous Parliament, we had a situation in which a mother, with her children, reported abuse to the police. The children also testified against the father.
There was a cultural thing, something that they practised back in their homeland. She was basically cut off from her family. However, her children were able to present evidence to the judge that they felt that they were not safe, and there were medical records from taking the kids and the mother to the hospital, so there was a lot of proof. It took a lot of courage for her to do that.
What was upsetting was that her family obviously stood by her partner, her ex-husband at the time. He got no jail time, but she continuously lived her life in fear.
Would you agree with me that when you have that kind of evidence, the individual should be placed in jail?