Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the panellists for your presentations this morning.
First of all, Mr. Kennedy, I want to publicly say what I said to you a minute ago privately: I'm very pleased to have met you. I want to commend you for your courage in becoming public on this issue, and for showing leadership, particularly to the young people of this country who admired you as a hockey player and who were able to get some comfort in knowing you had the courage to speak out.
I myself represented numerous victims of the Mount Cashel orphanage scandal during the nineties, and I was very aware of the importance of what you did when you came out in 1997. I started in about 1989, and we went through a public inquiry where young men were talking about their experiences at an orphanage—the same stories of non-belief and trying to get attention for what had happened to them. I'm very sympathetic to your circumstances.
Can you tell us whether you have seen any change in awareness in the last 10 or 12 years by society or young people, in terms of prevention of further perpetration? Do we have a better situation now than we did 15 years ago because of people like you, because of these prosecutions, because of the inquiries that have happened?
Have you seen any progress, in other words?