Thank you.
Through you, Chair, thank you to all the witnesses who came today to speak on the important issue of shelter systems.
I want to address my question to Andrea Silverstone.
Senior women are particularly vulnerable to coercion, control and exploitation, but barriers prevent them from accessing shelters. This abuse can come from family members and caregivers, not intimate partners.
In the government's Bill C-16, the protecting victims act, the definition of coercive control is limited to intimate partners. Should the definition of coercive control be expanded to persons of trust to cover all types of coercion to better support seniors and improve their care and shelter?