Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Justice LeSage, for your attendance here today.
I want to pick up on a line of questioning commenced by my friend Mr. Murphy regarding the competency of judges and experience in certain matters.
I understand that since your retirement from the bench you've been with Gowlings, a major Canadian law firm. Certainly the major law firms are very specialized in terms of their litigation departments, their corporate commercial departments, etc. Do you see it as a natural evolution on the bench that judges will become more and more specialized? Certainly in my province of Alberta and other provinces, we've created drug treatment courts. Of course we have family and youth divisions in the provincial courts. Is this the natural evolution of the bench, in your view?