Well, I'm a fan of the ombudsman, as you've heard. I think it's one of the best things your government has done for Canada and to put us on the world map, in terms of victims.
I think you have to require Statistics Canada to collect data around this. I think you also have to look at the role, possibly, of the Auditor General. I'm not quite sure what the division would be.
I think that if you look at the U.S. legislation, you will see it is built in there, and that's what's so important. It really does become a living way of improving what's going on.
If you also look at the European framework in 2001, which was a good framework, you will see the requirement for independent evaluation. The independent evaluation was done by an institute on victimology—and I'm too old to run one of those myself, but I would like to see one in this country—and the various victim assistance groups. It was their recommendations that led to this new directive, which sets minimal standards all the way across the European Union and has money from the European Union to get it implemented.
It's incredibly important that there be more money than has been proposed so far to help this be implemented and be evaluated. Also, I would like to see more money going into actually preventing victimization, into bringing those straight lines about the rates of general victimization down, and saving money, by the way.