Thank you very much. This bill is designed to create a pool. It's not specifically directed at the unified family court, but nonetheless, as you would know, in each province superior court judges are seized with divorce and family law matters in any case, and adding judges to an individual province or to a territory will ease, in my opinion, some of the pressure that exists as a matter of course.
With respect to New Brunswick, and specifically with respect to the appointments we have made there, we are sensitive to that. I can tell you that we are in continuous discussions with the chief justice to make sure we are meeting the needs of the people of the province.
Again, we're sensitive to this. I think an examination of the appointments that have been made by the government, in New Brunswick in particular, will show that we have tried to respond to it.
We consider it an asset, obviously, if a person is bilingual, and it's not just a case of francophones pretending to speak English. In having a look at their applications, we find people who have a facility in both languages. Obviously, we're sensitive to the subtleties of any language group, and we keep that in mind when we're making appointments in your province—indeed, as we do across the country, based on the needs.
But we don't come up with these on our own. We of course are sensitive to this, but we discuss it and take these matters up with the chief justice to make sure we're responding to those concerns.