I've seen this a bit, not just with my LEAF hat on but also with the experience of having advised complainants with section 276 and 278.1 applications before the court.
You don't want complainants and survivors having in-depth conversations with the Crown that are unnecessary to the process, because that triggers, as you've heard from multiple people here, disclosure obligations.
I have seen, in my own practice, examples of young women, in particular, who are experiencing a trauma and who are in an unfamiliar and hostile environment in many respects, not being in a position to understand that the Crown is not their lawyer and that victim witness assistance program practitioners here in Ontario are not their counsellors and are not their specific advocates. The things that are told to them are then disclosed to the defendant and that creates really awful knock-on effects that we want to avoid. That is why we go back to independent legal advice being incredibly important, by providing that solicitor-client privileged space for complainants and survivors to have those conversations and get the advice that they need.
On the issue of education, I do want to quickly say that there is such a need to invest in that in a way that brings experts into the conversation. Otherwise, you leave it to not-for-profit organizations—I could talk about this more—to provide these resources, and we're just not adequately resourced to do it.