Yes. As any policy officer in government, part of my duty is to collect information that is publicly available. I include reports, studies, any information publicly available on an issue that I'm studying. In studying the issue of violence against aboriginal women, the cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women are extremely important. We had the NWAC study to start our work, but there are a number of other studies and an awful lot of information, which are available publicly, that give us at least a preliminary analysis of the range of circumstances.
As I said, the geographic distribution is quite extreme. There are significant differences in terms of cultural issues, and there are very great differences in terms of situation. The cases range from the victims of serial killers, as we've seen with the B.C. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, through to domestic violence circumstances, family violence circumstances, cases where women have died either crossing highways, because it's the only way to go home, or have disappeared from highways. There are a lot of instances of women who were fully employed and are missing or murdered, in circumstances that were very different from the circumstances that were looked at in the Oppal commission. There were a lot of young girls who were going to school. There are a number of instances where people died of exposure. In order to understand the issue and to deal with the violence and to deal with the deaths, it's important to look at all of those circumstances.