I would like to raise another point.
This is a situation that we do in fact run up against. There are a lot of cases that involve intimidation, even at trial. This is happening at trials to this day. There is intimidation of witnesses, threats and attempts to bribe witnesses. This type of crime should be harshly punished. That is not happening right now. That is the first point I wanted to make.
The second point is that the justice system is in no way focused on the victim. Unfortunately or fortunately, this is not the place where decisions about the administration of justice are made; they are made at the provincial level. There is a whole array of improvements that need to be made, including court delays. When a case drags on for three years, that is just impossibly difficult. It is inhumane to keep that sword of Damocles dangling over the victim's head.
There is also the fact that testimony is interrupted, in other words, it does not happen all in one go. This happens a lot, because of backlogs in the courts. A victim may testify for two days and have to come back three months later to testify for two more days, and then two weeks later, and so on. It is inhumane, especially since there has already been a preliminary inquiry. Everyone knows how it works, including the victims, and they do not really want to go through all that.
We have to make our justice system focus more on victims. It is not doing that right now, but that is crucial.