As I indicated earlier, we have an offence of sexual assault, and we have an offence of aggravated sexual assault. Whether we have three levels of sexual assault or four levels of sexual assault, the issue as to why victims don't come forward isn't the name of the offence or the elements of the offence. There are other things at play as to whether victims are willing to come forward to talk about very private matters that happened to them.
I think what the victims are saying is that they would really like to have an offence that actually describes exactly what happened to them; that is, the maiming, the wounding wasn't just recklessly caused to us, but it was intentionally inflicted on us. That's what they want.
As I said, Parliament is free to craft that type of offence, but I am not sure that's what this bill does, because this bill tries to create a second offence of torture, as opposed to creating a new offence of intentional infliction of pain or suffering on an individual.