The legislation is very specific. As I indicated in my opening remarks, it's not the complete picture of what we are doing to assist elderly people in this country. I pointed out that the other legislation we had on white collar crime is a good example. The encouragement of the Government of Canada to have seniors and those working with them apply under the victims fund, the initiatives we have taken, the advertising campaign—all these are part of that.
I'm glad you mentioned it. I know that report did mention the role that law enforcement and the legal profession have in this. One thing I have done when I have spoken with members of the legal profession...it is the responsibility all of us have as lawyers to do what we can, either to intervene or to bring attention to this. You and others who practise private law, for instance, do come into contact with seniors. We do see examples where people try to take advantage of them.
I think I gave you this example one other time I was at the committee. I used to give my business card to my clients. I used to tell them if somebody tried to sell them something over the phone, they should ask them to call me. I said I'd be glad to look over it. If the person objects to your lawyer having a look at this, then you know there's something wrong. If you have a legitimate product or whatever it is you're trying to sell, and a lawyer's going to have a look at it, you'd welcome that, wouldn't you, if you were legitimate? If they have a problem with that, I always used to say to my clients, be very careful of that.
Again, we in the legal profession do, I believe, have a responsibility. Many times we do get involved. We see these things. Even within families you see situations where people look as if they may be taking advantage of an elderly member of the family, be that through estate planning, those sorts of things. I think we can play a very critical role, so I was glad to see that in there.
We have no plans to start setting up separate courts with respect to this, in answer to your direct question. It will be dealt with according to the existing judicial system. In addition to that, we are very supportive of those initiatives that, as you indicated, may be outside the court system, to either raise awareness, to get help to people, to get people to intervene on these things. Yes, we all have a responsibility. Certainly we in the legal profession have a great role to play.