I'll be brief, because I know Avalon has a lot to say on this.
This also speaks to the training that goes on for lawyers in our country. A number of lawyers in our country have to do a mandatory 30-something hours of training every year. Lawyers are constantly telling me that those training days are often slapped together, where they take turns jumping at the podium and talking to one another about their experiences.
I've been to these training days, and it's awful. It's terrible. The joke, of course, is that I'll sit in the back, and I'm not even invited to speak on LGBTQ issues.
We've never been consulted. No other LGBTQ organizations have been invited to the table to speak about these issues. We've had parliamentarians, lawyers, and judges look at us and say, “You know that button you're wearing, that “they/them” button? I don't even know how to navigate that let alone go into the effects of someone being victimized as a trans or non-binary gender person by a sexual assault.”
Absolutely, I think civil society needs to pay a critical role, and I think the federal government could play a critical role in setting out the curriculum. This sounds like you're stepping on the provinces and territories, but you actually wouldn't be because you're setting out this legislation. It wouldn't take a lot of work on your part to raise the bar and say that you're setting the curriculum as well.