I would add that the civil courts are, for the most part, cost-prohibitive. Unless you're talking about a huge claim, most of the people my friend would be representing suffer claims of less than $100,000 and you simply cannot go to a civil court for those kinds of amounts. So you don't report it or you look for an alternate remedy.
What a lot of people are looking for in this act is for the federal government to step up to the plate and provide some sort of mechanism for restitution either by seizure...if we are talking about proceeds of crime. There is provincial legislation in various provinces that treat deadbeat dads in a manner that forces them to make support payments, and you could look at something similar in this regard.