My concern is that all the work falls on the victim. That's what I'm hearing. It's the victim's responsibility, again, to do this legwork because the system is broken. That's the other concern.
If we change the number to what we had originally said, I think we would avoid this issue. Actually, we would probably help de-clog the justice system, because most people are going to go back in. You can also remove a peace bond and that will be fine. To me, it's not adding up that the onus is falling on the victim to do this work when they're dealing with a myriad of issues. When you have these conversations with victims, a lot of them are so stressed they don't want go in public because they're afraid. Now they have to make these appointments and be proactive maybe three months into the peace bond because they don't know how long the delay will be.
Again, it's not adding up for me to help the victim with this amendment.