I would just be guessing. I can't say whether a more serious offence is going to make victims come forward. We have assault. We have sexual assault. We have aggravated sexual assault. I don't think the fact that we have three types of sexual assault makes victims more willing to come forward. There are other factors at play as to whether people are willing to want to go to court, want to go to the police, and want to go into a public courtroom and talk about very intimate and personal things that happened to them. I don't think those deal necessarily with the offence, because other things are at play that motivate victims to testify or not to testify.
On September 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.