That's a big question, and it will be difficult to squeeze an answer into just a few moments. There are so many angles to help promote faith in the justice system, but since you mentioned survivors, I'll talk about those who have been victims of crime and who wish to seek justice.
There is no one thing you can do that will improve the system for everyone, but there are a lot of things you can do that will have an impact.
First of all, we have significantly renovated the Victims Bill of Rights in Bill C-16, which makes clear what a person is entitled to when they're going through this horrific experience of having complained to law enforcement and being made to tell and retell their story, which is sometimes very traumatic. The use of testimonial aids, proactively sharing information about what the experience could entail, making space for victims and their families to give statements on sentencing at Parole Board hearings are all positive changes that I think are going to have an impact.
We also need to look at the system itself. Maybe there are delays that are resulting in cases being thrown out without a trial coming to its natural conclusion.
In other instances, the challenges people have in navigating the system are far more basic. I hear often about a lack of public transit for low-income families to a family courthouse somewhere in Canada, as I do about the evidentiary process in sexual assault trials. Access to justice and advancing access to the justice system vary enormously from individual to individual and from province to province. I don't want to be too blunt, but you will see included in each of these bills a series of measures that are designed not only to strengthen Canada's criminal law but also to ensure that those who've been victimized by crime and have survived to tell their story have an experience that's more sensitive to what they've gone through.