I agree with everything that Professor Koshan said, but I will add that a lot of the initiatives that could improve the experience for complainants—and to be clear, I think there is decent research suggesting that fear of the criminal justice system is one of the reasons people don't come forward—could be done at the provincial level, as a result of the division of powers. But at least some aspects of this, with proper resources, could be done by the federal government. I have lots of ideas about what the provincial governments could do, but this is a clear example of where the federal government could act, at least in part.
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