Status of Women committee  I'd love to jump in here and talk a bit about the experiences of our clients and what we hear from police. We often hear from police that they are looking for coercive control legislation because it would allow them to actually act and move forward on what they're seeing. They see those patterns, the fear and the things that are happening, but they are bound within the confines of what they can do in terms of those responses.

Status of Women committee  Thanks, Andrea. Today, I want to talk about what we have heard from people impacted by coercive control. I cannot emphasize enough that the way we talk about abuse today has a very personal impact on how survivors view themselves, how they understand and contextualize their experiences and the steps that they take to get support.