When our project was initially created, the mandate was to review all of the investigational files: to identify the files, review the files, and develop investigational strategies. When we began the process of identifying which files we felt we had to bring within the project, we had to create a criterion and, I would suggest, a strict guideline or strict rules as to what files we could look at.
As I explained, we were restricted to looking at files that involved females, young women, engaged in high-risk activity or activity that placed them at risk, but we have also restricted our investigation to either homicides or missing persons files that occurred within one mile of the major highways I spoke about. Our logic for restricting the numbers to that, or for criteria that low, was that to achieve success in our investigational file, we have to be able to have a manageable number of files to look at.
We could conduct a search of the entire province and end up with possibly significantly more investigations, but for the particular mandate of our project, to be able to expect or hope to achieve success in those investigations, it would be such a momentous task that--