We're big believers that good policy formation happens on an empirical basis. The reality is that we have not desegregated data over time. It is not just Canada; it is around the world. But if we're going to do good policy formation out of the recommendations of this committee, we actually have to fund good data collection, desegregated data, not just by gender but by age and gender. Todd has brought that very much home in terms of both the quantitative as well as the qualitative. When Jane cites statistics that only 10% of reported cases, for example, go through the evidentiary gathering of a rape kit, or only 1% of something else, one of the data pieces that I use, and I use it to make a point, is that one in four girls reports being sexually assaulted before her 16th birthday in this country.
That data is about 17 years old, because we haven't collected this data in that long. Do I think the situation has improved? I'm not sure, but I want to be able to answer those questions on a foundation of solid evidence to be able to know where the right place to put the investment is.
When Mr. Barlow said all of these different projects—