I think that's a part of what this committee should be recommending.
I want to really refocus what this discussion should be about and what our research was about. Our research was not about the missing and murdered women. It was not about the high rates of domestic violence among aboriginal women and girls. We don't dispute that those are both enormously important problems. Our research looked at a very critical component of how one responds to both of those issues, and that is, first, the failure of the RCMP to provide protection and support to victims of domestic violence, victims of sexual violence, and victims of all forms of violence against women. It then also examined the smaller number of cases wherein the RCMP are in fact perpetrators of abuse.
In terms of the work we have done all over the world, responses to domestic violence require a comprehensive response. It requires all of the things that you and others have mentioned, but it also requires, critically, that the police play their role, that there is a level of trust between the police and the communities, and that victims know they can go to the police for support.
What this report clearly illustrates is that the women and girls we interviewed—who are victims, not families of victims; we interviewed victims of human rights violations—don't know, or believe, or trust that if they report cases to the RCMP, those cases will be investigated and will be taken seriously, and that they will get the protection they need from the RCMP.