Thank you for that question.
I'm most familiar, obviously, with the communities—I actually come from a remote community so I know about the services for whatever it is, whether policing and courts and the challenges that are there. What I can say for a lot of communities is that there is an inherent distrust that has built up over many years. I'm talking about the courts that I'm familiar with in our communities. It's probably less than 40 years that there have been any kind of courts. Talk about glacial movement—sometimes we view it more as rigor mortis and see it requiring divine intervention rather than science and medicine.
We do embrace the rights and respect the courts and so on. One of the biggest challenges we have experienced, whether in policing and courts, with the pace of these things is that it all boils down to a lot of it just being about the funding of support for services. That's why in our recommendations we're saying that we need a catch-up here to get a level playing field to restore justice in our communities and to have faith in justice. Our people do want and deserve the same thing as every other Canadian who can have justice, and I can understand, from what I'm hearing in the Q and A here, the frustration. I see that in our communities. It just exasperates that.
A lot of it is about resourcing, I believe, for the support services we do have, whether women's shelters or even for legal counsel. There's difficulty in getting adequate legal representation and enough courts to address the various levels of crime. That needs to be addressed. It is more of a resourcing issue than the law, really. The law is the law, and we believe it is the law for everyone.