This has been a very valuable conversation. I want to thank all of you for your insights.
I want to go back to an idea we talked about before at this committee. My colleague MP Damoff brought it up. I think it's one of your recommendations, Valérie: Appoint a lawyer for victims. I want to dig into this a bit more.
How do you envision that working out? I love this idea because, in my court experience, I heard this all the time. Victims don't feel like they're being heard. The Crown is not there for them. They have wonderful people in victim services who work in courts to help guide them through the process, but that person isn't advocating for them before the judge. I would like to see this at family court, as well—a lawyer for the victim who is knowledgeable about gender-based violence, coercive control and things like this.
I don't know if you know. Would this be a Criminal Code change? How do you envision this rolling out?