I mentioned in my opening remarks the Canadian violence link conference of 2017, which began to draw out some of the pre-existing data and research on that sort of thing.
To put it quite simply, it's about vulnerability, and both children and animals are vulnerable. A sexual predator often will link both and will use animals as well as children for their own sexual gratification. Sadly, the link is there, and the data is increasingly emerging that there is a link and that people will often move from animals to children and then both.
It's something that I think we need to send a clear signal on in the definition of our Criminal Code provisions: that in all of this kind of activity for sexual gratification—and now the definition turns on that—any kind of contact for sexual gratification is prohibited.