Thank you to all of the witnesses.
Mr. Waller and Mr. Gilhooly in particular focused on something that has preoccupied me as we've gone through the hearings.
Mr. Waller, you said you can't get something for nothing.
Mr. Gilhooly, you said that the law can't solve all the problems and that simply writing things down doesn't mean they're going to happen.
Here we are discussing legislative provisions when the real key to giving some meaning to what we want to do isn't so much legislative provisions as it is resources.
I want to start with you, Mr. Waller, and I'd like to focus on a couple of things you said in your brief. You talked about how the federal and provincial governments in Canada have not increased funding for victims services and rights despite a significant increase in budgets for policing. I'd just like to drill down on that. Can you give us some sense of what the present level of support is and how it breaks down? If I look over on the next page of your brief, you set a specific goal for victims as 10% of what's spent federally for policing, courts, and corrections. I'm trying to get some sense of what these numbers mean in terms of where we are now and where we need to be for a victims bill of rights to have any real meaning in terms of dedication of resources.