Right.
Minister, on April 28 I was in Edmonton. I met the president and CEO of Legal Aid Alberta. She said that the situation for funding is desperate. She told me that the federal funding of $10.4 million, of their total $68.5-million budget, has been static for eight or nine years despite the increasing population in that very young province, despite the urban indigenous population growth, and despite the Daniels case and its impact. They're calling out desperately for federal help.
I note that you also have under way an evaluation of the legal aid program. It started in 2015 and is expected to be completed in October 2016. A particular irritant is that they only get $0.5 million a year for immigration, an area of exclusive federal jurisdiction. They spend way more of their own funds for that.
We're talking about access to justice in this committee. Can you give any comfort to Legal Aid Alberta and other legal aid plans that help is on the way?