I'm coming at this from a slightly different perspective, because people talk about specialized courts and specialization. In the court watch that we conducted in 2014-15, it was of the specialized domestic violence courts. We found, overwhelmingly, that even though it was called “specialized courts”, where you had specialized police, specialized crowns, and allegedly specialized judges, the reality was that even with all the specialization, they still lacked the fundamental analysis of gender-based issues. You'd have instances where somebody actually has the courage, goes forward, discloses, the police investigate, and it gets to trial. No matter the charge or the assault, what ends up happening is that it's the same outcome. Everybody ends up with a peace bond, and he walks away. There's nothing that happens.
For me, when we talk about specialization, I come back to the issue of who is delivering the training. Who is delivering the education to make you understand what actually happens in this context?
For us, to answer your question, have we ever been invited? No, we have not. It is critical to go back to Jeremy's point that you cannot educate anybody on a subject matter without the experts. You need experts to do the educating. You cannot have judges telling other judges about issues that they don't know anything about.