@STNGfan,
Canada is trying really really really really hard to be the Good Ship Lollipop.
Such good good good good people - not like Americans at all. Step right up and get your "I love you - you love me" refrigerator magnets. Ppphhhhhhtttttt........
Edit: In addition the psych bozo who has creatively described this guilty perpetrator as having a 'dependent personality disorder' should lose his license.
The guy is a batterer - nothing less - and that kind of behavior leads to murder as it escalates along the rejection trail - which the perp actually encourages. It is a rage pattern which must be given intervention - but first - get the guy out of the public at large.
You do not use violence on anyone for any reason - even full blown insanity - for a rejection situation unless there is lengthy punishment attached and years of intense therapy for lousy impulse control.
Bringing human rights into this mix is profoundly wrong - the rights of the victim are at risk here not the mad hatter who has a terrible selection of outlets to relieve his immature insecurities.