Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for a very well reasoned and sensible response to the bill. He has some good suggestions and has raised some reasonable concerns. That is the kind of debate we should have.
I sat on the public safety committee this morning. We heard an expert on terrorism and radicalization tell us that there are materials being distributed in Canada today that say that beating women is an act of kindness and love and that women owe a duty to their husbands, a duty that includes obedience and not withholding intimacy.
There are documented activities taking place in our country that are not only physically dangerous to women but also hostile in a very cultural sense.
I would ask my colleague why we need to avoid the world “culture” when clearly there are cultural dimensions to this danger to women.