Hello, witnesses. This is Lisa Hepfner chipping in here.
I met with the three of you a couple of months ago, and I was extremely moved by your stories. I'm very glad that you've accepted the invitation to come and share with the entire committee. I think it's something that we all need to hear.
I would like to clarify something that we heard earlier from my colleague. This isn't something that's in the Divorce Act that they want us to take out; this is something they want us to change so that we can't use parental alienation in family court.
One thing that I find very disturbing—and I haven't really heard anybody talk about it yet—is that there's a sort of cottage industry growing out of this tendency to use parental alienation. These so-called therapists, the family reunification people, are the same people advising judges that this therapy is needed. Then the children and the parents are forced into particular therapy with that particular person.
Does anybody want to chip in if they've heard the same thing?