Thank you for the question. I'm glad to speak to this.
The concept of coercive control is a really important one. I know we've been talking today about Bill C-16 and the criminalization of coercive control. That's one set of tools.
We saw a couple of weeks ago, in the civil context, the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Ahluwalia and Ahluwalia case, in which the court created a new tort—a kind of claim for suing. One of the main factors there is around coercive control.
This is a really important concept, but I want to be clear that I don't think the solution to this problem lies in the criminal law. We need criminal law tools in order to tackle this, but I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that addressing the harm after it's happened is the way to get to where we need to go.