Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have too much to add to the comments made by my colleague, Mr. Dent, who I credit with keeping this issue on the radar screen here and really shaping what we have today. He has really put the pieces together and he deserves our recognition, along with the Minister, Mr. Allen, who has taken on the challenge.

When we were talking abut this on Monday, Mr. Speaker, I related some of the horrific statistics that are pervasive in our society related to family abuse. What impressed me and perhaps in a sense is also depressing, Mr. Speaker, is that this legislation is only going to be one part of a continuum, a whole basket of programs and services that will be needed to really make a difference in the number of incidents of family abuse and in really achieving a marked decrease. It's going to take a long time. We have started this process and hopefully we have started changing the attitudes and willingness of people to confront this issue, to deal with it and really make a difference. So I hope that in going through the process now, the big process of designing this legislation, especially designing its implementation, that this legislature will be signalling that we really do want to make a difference. Thanks, Mr. Speaker.