Similar to the office of the correctional investigator, there needs to be some policy leads that can help with systemic issues.
We know that many people who experience violence in Canada never progress to the point where they're a victim with a federally sentenced defender. To uncover some of those aspects, looking into racialized disparities, the barriers that Black families experience with gun violence and this almost reverse onus to prove that their victim wasn't involved in gang violence....
There are a lot of these issues that need to be disentangled, and we can do that better with some added capacity.