Yes. It's an activity I am directly involved with, although there have been one or two exceptions because of my language difficulties. So I was not involved in the cases of two women in Quebec. For all of the rest of the women--there were ten women who have proceeded--I've been involved in all their cases, to lesser or greater degrees, depending on, quite frankly, their own abilities to organize the materials and the level at which their lawyers are able and have time to devote extra time, because they're usually not fully paid for the entire project. So I'm usually involved in it.
In terms of 90 days, there was a time.... That sounds like I'm telling a fairy tale now. Certainly in the early days of these reviews we had exceptional cooperation from the Correctional Service of Canada, and certainly there was a report done by one of the then regional deputy commissioners talking about the need for Corrections to be very much involved in these processes. That report has long since been shelved, and we don't see that same level of involvement, by and large, aside from the assessment that is done. It used to be that we would, for instance, be able to gain access to a separate area to sometimes spend a week or more going through the documentation. In one case, I actually stayed overnight in a private family-visiting unit for several days to go through that documentation with the lawyer and we were able to develop that process.
I would be concerned right now, quite frankly, particularly given the challenges we're having getting access to documents, and the challenges that prisoners are having getting access to their own documents, sometimes even in getting access to a writing instrument to ask for their own documents, that the 90 days might be prohibitive. It's rare that I obtain documents within 90 days, even though the legislative requirement is 30 days. I usually will agree to an extension once, twice, and usually it will be only after the third extension I put in a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner.