"The Globe and Mail’s investigative series Unfounded offers an unprecedented opportunity for change at the level of police investigations of sexual assault."

Yes, that certainly seems to be the motivation.  Too bad they didn't do the follow-up to compare conviction rates that would have given some logical rigour to the information about the ratio determined to be unfounded.  Had they done that, a clear basis to demand change might have been established.  As it is, the half-measure approach feeds rhetoric, but not change.