The reality is we don't have previous stats from years ago. The Statistics Canada survey will give us a baseline from here on in and that will be available in November.
Intuitively, we knew that as we created the environment for people to come forward, we would have an increase in reporting, and our allies mentioned that as well. Be prepared, they said, to get more reports in the first number of years as you are going down this road, because people will test the system. They will want to make sure that what you're saying you're actually going to do.
We're in that phase right now of people coming forward, and I would venture to say not everyone has come forward. There are still a lot of challenges in encouraging people to report. One of the benefits of having the centre is they don't have to start a report. They don't have to have an investigation. They can just seek any of the help that they need in order to get over what had happened, or at least in order to face what has happened to them.
In some cases, thank goodness, they get that confidence level and that trust and they actually start a report and they actually start the investigation, and we can address the issue of the perpetrators or the alleged offenders, which I think is really good. But the reality is we don't have the stats for the past.
A number of people who have come forward are also coming forward on historical issues, things that have happened in the past. We've gotten this right from the beginning when we went out on our town halls; people wanting to tell us what happened to them five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years ago, because they haven't gotten over it. We're also trying to facilitate the help that they need.