That's an interesting question. I work with many of the victim services, but they are, in my view, heavily circumscribed by the policy directives within Correctional Service Canada. I think that at least the people who I deal with are good people. They try to assist the victims. However, I think they have their hands tied behind their backs.
We get notices of parole hearings without any regard to what.... Let me back up. I'll give you an example. With respect to the transfer of Paul Bernardo, they happened to do it at the same time as the anniversary date of Leslie Mahaffy's murder. You would think that, in a case of this profile and this importance, they would appreciate that maybe that's not the time to do the transfer.
When you get notices of parole hearings, they'll say that you need to have your victim impact statement in within, let's say, two or three weeks, even though the hearing may be many months away. There is no sensitivity or feeling that, in preparing these victim impact statements, the victims take this very seriously. I think for anyone who participates or is at the parole hearings of Paul Bernardo, and certainly for the other people I represent, a very serious effort is put into these victim impact statements. There has to be more sensitivity in terms of the timeline for those to be completed.