We're going to be continuing to support all the different areas that we're doing with respect to victims. As you know, criminal injuries compensation boards are provided by each province in this country. Again, I believe they have been helpful.
With respect to the whole question of victims, I'm sure you'll note that in the years before we formed the government, the average support for victims was a little less than $9 million. Since 2007 we've increased that by an additional $13 million.
I'm very pleased with the programs we have done. In the child advocacy centres, for the first time the federal government is involved with building a sensitive environment for children who have been victims of crime, to assist them. I'm very pleased about that. Of course, we're very pleased about the additional funding that has now been put into missing and murdered aboriginal women. We'll be involved shortly with the victims of crime awareness week. I'm pleased that we are moving forward. In effect, the creation of a federal ombudsman for victims of crime is something I had the honour to announce, I guess almost five years ago now.
All these things are steps in the right direction, but of course we need the support of our colleagues across the country, and certainly you've identified one of them.