Minister, thank you for appearing before the committee.
We want to make sure the bill does not doubly victimize people, and your remarks today are doing nothing to convince me that that will be the case. Whenever the question is put to you, you say that you will make sure the process is followed. When a victim turns to the Department of Employment and Social Development, are you going to send that individual back to meet with the person who assaulted them, or their employer, and make them go through the mediation process? Conversely, will you deal with that person's complaint?
I think that's what victims would like to know this afternoon. Will the department be there for victims, or will it instead ask them to follow a bureaucratic process that is likely to lead to their double victimization?