As I said in my brief, the study we did was the first study to be done in 10 years. It's the only study to actually qualitatively take information from...it was only three campuses, so it's a small start to addressing a much bigger problem, but what we need to do is accurately capture the situation of sexual violence across the country—not just the numbers, but people's experiences with what's happening on their campuses.
Of course, the federal government has a federal funding body, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It would be wonderful if one of their areas of concentration was on gender-based violence and special grants were made available to researchers, because there are crucial questions that remain unanswered—for example, the pornography question that was asked earlier.
We didn't have an opportunity to interview university men about their views, but what my colleague has said about boys in high school indicates that we need to know what the mentality is out there, and where they're getting those ideas. You can't get that strictly from surveys. You need to get that from across-the-country research. It takes time to clear ethics boards, but it also takes time to build trust in particular communities.
The other population that was wildly under-represented in our research was indigenous people, and that's because there's a huge trust-building exercise that needs to go on before you can do research with indigenous populations. We know there's a massive problem with sexual and gender-based violence in indigenous communities and among indigenous peoples and we know it comes from a culture of colonialization and the effects of colonialization, but we don't know how that's manifesting for indigenous students on university campuses. If I were to pick my top area, that would be the one place where I would want to go directly, to find a way to chronicle the experiences and the needs of indigenous students on campus.