Specifically I asked, sir, what your office is doing to contribute to the overall knowledge component as part of your recommendations moving forward. You mentioned knowledge, greater consultation, making revisions to the legislation and monitoring the data. Those are the four highlights I heard from your presentation.
I've heard from other witnesses that it was important for the government to respond appropriately to the Supreme Court of Canada's decision. I am not critiquing the government. It was appropriate they do that, and we urged them to do that, but there's been a great deal of criticism in terms of the speed with which they pass the legislation without proper consultation and without proper public announcements to victims' groups so that the public can be informed that this is not going to be opening up the floodgates for future litigation.
As I indicated at the outset, it's bad enough to convince a victim to participate in this process. I personally engaged in a number of round table discussions, and notwithstanding my highlights of Bill C-28, there is still that fear out there that the defence now has another tool available to them to litigate.
I'd like to know what your office is doing to assuage those fears.