I've laid out some recommendations in the brief that has circulated. I'm not sure if you've had an opportunity to review it.
It's difficult, because you're crossing legislative boundaries between provinces and the federal government. As for what falls under the purview of the federal government, I do think there are reforms that could be entertained with criminal law. We were able to do this with battered women's syndrome. We were able to recognize that there are particular gender circumstances in the case of domestic violence that would not hold a woman accountable to the same standards as any other person in the case of self-defence. This is the Lavallee decision...it doesn't matter; I won't give you a law lecture on it. The point is that the Supreme Court was able to make a provision within the Criminal Code to allow for gender disparity in experiences of violence.
I think we have a thoughtful Supreme Court, I think we have a thoughtful legislature, and I think it is possible to entertain legislative changes that might understand sexual violence as being a crime that is different from the other kinds of crimes that we find in the Criminal Code. This is not a crime of property—