With the different laws that we have, sometimes it's hard to measure their effectiveness individually, but there have been a number of different laws that have been enacted by the federal government over the last few years, including the Divorce Act and the former Bill C-75, that have a number of different measures in them that aim to increase protections for victims of intimate partner and family violence. We've heard some of the statistics today about the prevalence of the issues, and one of the things we would look at is prevalence of people who are harmed in these types of relationships.
There's also self-reporting. We get reports from victims and individuals about victimization with these types of crimes. [Technical difficulty—Editor] and then in relation to [Technical difficulty—Editor].
If you're talking about how successful it is, in terms of the implementation that occurs and how they're finding the measures to work with, that's something that's harder to quantify. There might be qualitative studies, but that wouldn't give us definitive data on how it's playing out across the country.