Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that it opens the door, if this committee decides later, after hearing the testimony from the first two meetings, the first meeting being that three-hour meeting that was proposed with the witnesses, which I think we all agreed on.... The second meeting would be the Minister of Public Safety on this issue and any other issue that deals with the minister's mandate. Following that, if we have the trauma-informed briefing, it allows the committee, potentially, if we decide to invite witnesses who are victims either on this issue or on any other issue, to be better prepared.
If you ask me right now if I would be prepared to invite victims, as I mentioned two days ago at our committee, I would not be prepared at this point to invite victims to the committee, in the same way that I don't think we as a committee were ready for the Canadian heritage committee to invite the victims of the sexual assaults that, tragically, we saw in far too many Canadian sport organizations.
I believe the committee needs to do the work first, before we can contemplate what the next steps may be.