Okay.
We went further because in our experience in Ontario with providing independent legal advice, originally the province wanted to provide it when a trial date was set. We encouraged them to back that up, because the cases go wrong right from the get-go. Women do not understand, as you pointed out, that the state is not representing them. Simultaneously, they don't understand the implications of any of their conduct or that any of it will be held against them or that even collecting a rape kit and submitting it commits them to a path that they may not have consciously committed to.