Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I don't disagree at all with the idea of having some people from outside the area. My only reason for suggesting that we keep it local was so that it would be more efficient. We could put it together fairly quickly, if we wanted to get on it quickly, and it never precluded us from--I was just thinking of one session--expanding it to a second session. So it was more to get it together quickly, if that was our wish, and to not make it a big thing. For at least our first one, we would just keep it close, quiet. People would volunteer.
Christian, if there were any issues of people saying “I don't want somebody else to hear”-- they're going to volunteer to come as a group, in a family setting or a group setting, for that particular session.
I have no objections to opening it up, if that's the consensus. I was only thinking maybe for the first one, let's just, fairly quickly, put together something locally, because we do know that there are some people on both sides of the river who are victims. I'm not concerned either way how you do it.