I appreciate the question. I think at this time and at this juncture, in terms of looking at violence prevention and healing pathways, we need to move outside the traditional criminal system. As I think my colleague said, the system is failing. It's failing victims. Victims are being retraumatized. The notion of restorative and transformative justice allows a victim an empowering position in that process. It allows them to talk about what it is they want. Most victims will tell you that what they want is for that never to happen to anybody else.
The criminal system does not engage in that. We need to be talking about how we work across systems and how we offer various pathways and various realities looking at all the safeguards, looking at coercive control and looking at all those realities, but also really surrounding the victim with the opportunity to face accountability. The criminal system doesn't really give that notion of accountability. How do we shift that? How do we intersect systems and create pathways so that women can actually find the healing they so deserve? How do we work upstream with perpetrators and look at how they can hold themselves accountable, make amends and perhaps make different choices so that we don't have to stay in the wrong systems all the time?