I'll have one comment and one question.
To Ms. Smithen, I want to say a distinct thank you from me and I'm sure from many members here at this committee for being so honest and for sharing so candidly and vividly and cogently about your own personal life experience. That's the kind of testimony we want to hear, and I applaud you for giving.
To Ms. Kler, I want to ask you about your own testimony and then invite your two colleagues here to comment on that.
You mentioned the potentially traumatizing effect of a PI, a preliminary inquiry, on a complainant in a sexual misconduct or sexual assault trial and how that can result in reliving the events, and going through difficult cross-examination over very minor matters which would effectively re-victimize the complainant. Could you just elaborate on that?
Then I would ask Professor Sheehy and Ms. Smithen to comment on whether they share Ms. Kler's view.
Thank you.