I want to continue on the question of ensuring protection in the areas of sexual violence, because we deal with victims who have mental health issues and diminished intellectual capacities, where the system simply doesn't work for them. They get eaten up in the system.
Conversely, many people who end up as defendants, who are of a broken background, particularly those who suffered abuse in communities where they grew up and then ended up on the street, find that the system does not seem to address them in a fair manner, ensuring justice and protection.
Has your department put a lens on these issues of ensuring equity for both the defendants and complainants in cases of violence, in terms of mental health issues, diminished intellectual capacity, and fetal alcohol syndrome, and what steps does the justice system need to take to adjudicate these issues?