I think that's great.
If you're going to require police officers to spend more time with victims—and it's not that they don't want to do those things—then you're going to require more police officers. I can tell you that in Ottawa and in Toronto we hear all the same things about police budgets. I think even the federal government has talked about the police budgets, that we have to get a handle on those, so we're probably going to see those shrink, not grow. If there's a lot more work in this with police and victims, then you're going to have to have more police officers.
In Ottawa, for example, at our crown attorney's office, we have a program called the victim/witness assistance program. It's in every jurisdiction of the province, and I'm sure they have something similar in most jurisdictions across the country. That's an office that works with victims when cases are before the courts, and it helps keep them updated about the dates and those kinds of things. They're limited to pretty much domestic violence, sexual assault, homicides, some elder abuse, and some trafficking, but they just don't have the time to deal with all those other victims. For impaired driving victims, assault victims, non-domestic assault victims, they don't have the resources and time to deal with those people now, even under the province's victims bill of rights. If this bill is going to put more work on them, then they're going to need more people as well.
If I'm wrong and the minister is right that this is going to have some kind of fundamental change, it's going to mean a substantial increase in resources for crown attorneys, police, victim services, and everybody in between to make sure you can actually do what you're promising you're going to do.