That's all I wanted to know, because it is a matter of public record that the outgoing president of the Canadian Bar Association, who was a classmate of mine, excoriated the government, and I think that's a non-partisan issue at the moment. He got really mad, rootin' tootin' mad, at the government, and I don't think it was just the current government. It was at the government's abandonment of legal aid in this country. The first ministers, one of whom I know quite well, are concerned about legal aid being in crisis.
As ministerial officials here, do you accept that legal aid is in crisis in this country? If you don't want to be as traumatic as saying “crisis”, do you think it's in good shape?