I think the things that are being mentioned here.... In fact, women made very important interventions to say that what we call rape shield laws were absolutely essential to women being equal in this society.
One of the key cases along this line, which was mentioned very briefly this morning, was the case against Bishop O'Connor. You'll remember Bishop O'Connor in British Columbia, who in fact was a bishop who had been in charge of a residential school. He had sexually abused the girls who were in the residential school. When they made complaints of rape and sexual abuse against him, he wanted to get their records, which, as the person in control of the school, he had controlled.
Women intervened to say that this was not a fair circumstance for the girls who were making the complaints against this very high official who had all his power. They said that if in fact you wanted to protect women properly, you could not allow him, in this circumstance, to have access to the records he was actually involved in creating in the first place and now wanted to use to defend himself. Those were extraordinarily important principles. They still are.