I think that Bill S-12 right now centres that issue in ensuring that survivors can exercise choice and agency in determining what choice is best for them in the circumstances.
Bill S-12 allows for publication bans to be put in place right off the bat, which, as acknowledged and heard at this committee, can feel like a suffocating or retraumatizing experience for some survivors. Putting in those mechanisms to easily allow for the ban to be lifted, varied or revoked is an important measure to give effect to those survivors' choices.
Having the discretion or the ability present in the amendments to Bill S-12 to allow for that protection to exist and persist for survivors who wish to avail themselves of the privacy protections of the ban is also something that this bill, as drafted currently, achieves.
I want to also re-emphasize the court resourcing point. It's not just that courts are under-resourced. It is that resources need to be directed in a way that will allow survivors to be supported in the process if they choose to report, and will allow them to make choices about whether to report in the first place.
I could go on and take up most of the committee's time talking about ILA programs that exist for survivors, for example, in Ontario, to help them make those choices and about the need to expand those across the country and properly fund them.