Good afternoon.
My questions are for whoever can answer them.
You were asked a question about how you could provide for certain things in relation to new legislation coming into force. I'm going to take you back into the past. In the Montreal area, there was a biker war. Mr. Serge Ménard, who is now a member of the Bloc Québécois, was Minister of Public Safety at the time. He did some good work. He resembled us somewhat, back then. He managed to have a good many people brought before the courts. They even had the Gouin Court House built for the occasion. Of the 36 accused, at least some 20 were drug-related bikers. Some had even set off a bomb in the riding of Mr. Réal Ménard, and young Sébastien Desroches was killed in the explosion. Still, those people were entitled to legal aid. As you know, there was some conflict because the amounts were very high.
I'd like to know how you solved that problem. As we know, the cost of defending those people who were involved in organized crime was huge, and this got a lot of coverage in Quebec newspapers.
A few years earlier, there were the events in Oka, with a significant number of Aboriginal people being charged and brought before the courts. There too, they relied on legal aid. That certainly jacked up the legal aid bill.
How did you solve that problem? That may be the kind of situation we are going to have to deal with.