Madam Chair, I haven't done a lot of study of integrated sexual violence courts. I do think that alternatives to the kinds of existing, pervasive, and highly punitive approaches to addressing sexual violence are ineffective. I think they are ineffective both for accused and for victims for various reasons, including some that Ms. Brière mentioned.
I think I would respond to this in a similar way to the idea of mediation—not identically, but similarly. I don't think that when we're trying to deal with the systemic problems I've described and that others have described, increasing mediation or creating a parallel court when we're trying to deal with a variety of cases that are pushing us well beyond our limits, are responses that will effectively address that problem. I won't say that integrated courts are something I would oppose per se, and I haven't studied them extensively, but I will say that creating a parallel court system without removing the gigantic amount of input that goes through the criminal punishment system as a means of dispute resolution, I strongly suspect, will not address the core issues here today, which is delays. I think the committee needs to strongly consider reducing the inputs into the criminal punishment system if delays are its concern.