I think it absolutely would. I guess I'm not sure that I think it should be shifting away from the criminal law towards human rights. I think both of those avenues should be available to women. I think there's lots of research that suggests that sometimes women have very valid reasons for not approaching the police, whether it's because they are re-victimized through that process, or that the process doesn't focus on them, or that it does not have adequate victim supports. There are all sorts of reasons why. I think having alternatives that women have more control over is key.
I can speak only from the B.C. experience, but it's a fundamental problem there, because there is no legal aid to cover the human rights system. The federal system is a little bit different because there's the Human Rights Commission, but if the shift is to broaden the human rights protections in this area, the system obviously has to be meaningfully accessible to women. That requires their having legal assistance to approach that system.