The early 1990s became a period characterized by an extremely high level of activity in response to the problem of child sexual abuse on the part of the federal government, provincial/territorial governments, and police organizations, especially the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) and the RCMP. [...] While the early to mid-1990s marked the most rapid growth in the provision of services and legislation to respond to child sexual abuse, growth has continued to present day with the support of the federal and provincial governments, in collaboration with the police and child protection agencies. [...] The lack of information regarding the police response to reports of child sexual abuse prior to the late 1970s and early 1980s is somewhat surprising given that Section 31 of the Child Welfare Act of Ontario in 1965 required “every person having information of the abandonment, desertion, physical ill-treatment or need for protection of a child” to report the information to the Children’s Aid Socie [...] Although the government began to address the problems of child sexual abuse in the 1970s, the issue was often secondary to many government reviews and reports that emphasized the status of women or the broader topic of child abuse and neglect (Badgley, 1984). [...] Growth of Awareness and Response in the 1980s During the 1980s, societal awareness of child sexual abuse grew tremendously and the response to child sexual abuse became more focused as research documented both the scope and nature of the problem, as well as its long-term effects on the victims.