Absolutely. I would certainly encourage the committee to reach out to any of the child advocacy centres. You'll find folks there with a passion that will light up the room because, exactly as you say, they are gaining a supportive environment for children and their non-offending family members.
We've done a lot of work at Justice Canada to provide research about child advocacy centres, because before Justice Canada provided funding in 2010 there was no Canadian research about child advocacy centres. Justice Canada is leading the way in Canada on that research. We're finding, as you say, that crown counsels are more efficient in their decisions to lay charges or to proceed with cases. We find that parents are more satisfied with how they have to interact with the criminal justice system. Most importantly, we're finding that children say they are less scared, at that kind of entry level, about having to deal with this group of professionals.