Again, I'm not the Correctional Service Canada, but I think it's roughly in the nature of 17,000 who are in custody. I believe there are about 6,000 to 7,000 registered victims.
When you look at that, first of all we talk about information available to Canadians. If in fact you want the information that the legislation says you can have currently about an offender, you must register as a victim with the Parole Board of Canada or Correctional Service Canada. Unless somebody makes you aware of that, you wouldn't know it. Otherwise, you can't have access to any of this information.
What we also know is that some offenders will have more than one registered victim. To give you a concrete...the number of parole hearings a year. I don't have the exact number with me today and I apologize, but I can get that for you. What I can tell you is that within our mandate as the federal ombudsman, we do take complaints from victims across this country, and particularly in relation to the CCRA or issues around Correctional Service Canada and the parole board.
When you asked me how many exactly, we deal with certain victims who contact our office, or through different opportunities that I have when I'm out in different communities across the country to speak to victims about these issues. I always say I don't tell their story; I amplify their voice. Those are the issues that I'm bringing forward here, based on the input from the victims and the families that we speak to on a regular basis about issues that they've confronted.
I don't know if that answers your question.