As for the database, I agree that it's a very important piece of our work. When I first started, I was working directly on the database. That was my main priority.
The future of the database will be important for many different reasons. We would like to do other data runs on the information we have. We want to expand certain areas. We find that we have more suspects for each crime. It's not just one person acting against another. It's groups of people who might commit a crime against one person. So we need to expand the parameters of the 250 variables that we currently have.
We'd also like to run mapping for jurisdictions as well. Sometimes across jurisdictions we need to see where things are happening, where things come up, and to map out whether it's an overlap of jurisdiction or a complete lack of jurisdiction. We'd also like to start running a more extensive time series analysis on the data.
So when we talk about families' needs, it's not just eligibility for one year. Sometimes there's eligibility for victims services only if a crime has been committed. Being “missing” is not a crime, so a lot of family members are not able to access victims services. Some jurisdictions don't offer victims services unless a charge has been laid. Well, charges are often not laid in cases of aboriginal women and girls.
I'll leave the talk about the $10 million to my colleagues here.