Yes, I know how to get attention here.
I should say that the issue of the independent judiciary is very important. Judges want this information as much or more than anybody else, and they are happy to have better data. Part of the responsibility rests with Statistics Canada, which has stopped collecting certain kinds of data. I know that, at least in part, it's because of funding issues.
Another issue has been the lack of government-supported leadership, the political will to do fundamental research about the family justice system. Mr. Callahan mentioned health research. We have one research institute in Canada that looks at family justice, the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family at the University of Calgary. It is in the process of being shut down because of lack of funding.
So there's not nearly enough funding for family justice research. When I'm talking about family justice, it's not something that the academics want to know. It's something that judges want to know, lawyers want to know, and parents want to know. They want to know what kind of longitudinal data we have on what is going to help families, parents, and children going through the divorce process. What is going to get better outcomes for children? We do that kind of work in the health care system. We do it in the environmental areas. We don't, however, do it in family justice, and this is a major problem.
The problem certainly has to do with more resources and more personnel. Mr. Callahan mentioned “young Professor Bala”. Well, we're not even hiring family law professors. When you hire professors, you don't say you need more people to do banking law and technology law. When a family law professor dies or retires in this country, they're typically not replaced by another family law professor. So it goes up and down the line.