Thank you. That is an amazing question. Thank you for asking it and thank you for acknowledging how difficult this is for us, because it is.
If we had known—I think that was one of your questions—prior to the move, would we have done anything about it? Would we have made our voices heard? Absolutely. That is why we are doing it now and why we began doing it at that very moment. That was, I think, it for us.
I think that it also cannot be on the victim. There have to be other ways to deal with that. Again, the ombudsman spoke to that a little bit, about having the victims registered and ensuring that they are registered, because that is going to facilitate communication. There has to be a way to get those victims registered. They have to know that is something they are able to do.
As Marcia said, I also think that doing the victim impact statement is in and of itself retraumatizing. You're going back and revisiting the entire trauma.
Again, I'm going to go back to the mental health aspect and say that when the Correctional Service of Canada or the committee or anyone else is interacting with the victims and their families, it must be somebody who is informed about trauma. Trauma is its own animal. It's very specific and very complex, especially in a situation like Paul Bernardo, with the crimes that he committed and how horrific they were. It's just not the same as other mental health....
I really feel that it should not be on the victims. There should be help available from the Correctional Service or from the committee, from people who are informed about trauma and who know how sensitive it is in nature and who could be there to support victims when they're making these statements. I also think that victim impact statements are very important and need to be heard, but victims need to be supported when making them, because it is very retraumatizing.