Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The figures I quoted for you come from UNIFEM. They are constantly monitoring these situations. But as we all know, figures with respect to rape, sexual abuse, and so forth are probably on the very low end, as these are some of the crimes that are the least reported.
There's a good reason for that. Women feel very uncomfortable with having a male police officer coming to see them and with going through a justice system that's predominantly male as well. There's not a great comfort level. Having investigated these types of crimes, I can tell you that when we suddenly had women police officers in my organization, we could tell the difference right away. The male police officers could tell that the comfort level of the victims was there. It had not been there before. That's a big factor. These figures, I am sure, are on the very low side.