Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I apologize for getting lost in the proceedings earlier.
Just to conclude, I just wanted to highlight Recommendation 7 in that committee has asked the government to initiate a comprehensive review of the entire emergency protection order and protection order system using section 16.1 of the Act, because we certainly heard from people that the effectiveness of EPOs really depends on how the system is functioning in practice. And what we heard is that there are many ways that, in practice, the system is not serving people as well as it could and as well as it needs to. So I'm certainly really hoping that by doing a review of each aspect of the EPO system and looking into beyond just how it's designed but how it's actually working in practice and how it's working in terms of procedures with the -- for example, how soon justices are able to actually review EPOs when they come to them, ways that people can apply for altering the terms of an emergency protection order, things like that I think could make a big difference in terms of how well these are serving people. So I do urge the government, even though it feels like, okay, this part's concluded and the tendency might be to just put this aside and, you know, forget about it for a while. I think to really gain the momentum of the work that's been done here, I would really urge the government to initiate a review and look at further changes to the act that might need to be made that could really be even more effective in serving people. I know that the government will have to take that recommendation away and come back to us, but I just wanted to highlight that in my comments. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
