Thank you for the question.
I want to reiterate, if I might, how troubling we find the growth in reports that we are regularly receiving.
I want to just corroborate what you're saying. To give one example, Canada, through Global Affairs, has throughout my career in this department annually held consultations with human rights, NGOs and community leaders. It's really only in the last couple of years that the balance of conversations at those annual consultations has shifted to talking about how intimidated they feel within Canada and the growing risk, even within Canada, of raising the concerns that they do. We take it very seriously.
It's a fair point. I don't have an operational answer to your specific question, insofar as Global Affairs Canada is not domestically the first responder for this particular type of incident. There's work being led by Public Safety to address the specific question you've raised, and there are a lot of discussions about how to shorten the distance between individual Canadians experiencing this and knowing how to deal with it. It's very important.
I want to emphasize that the operational lead still has to be the police. It's not sufficient, but it's the first step.