We're working with the provinces. As you know, the administration of justice and legal aid is a provincial responsibility. We are working with the provinces to undertake best practices.
We actually undertook a study a couple of years ago on innovations in legal aid to see what kinds of best practices.... Each province has a different means of delivering legal aid. Some use a certificate system. Some use more in-house legal aid lawyers, who are government lawyers. Others provide certificates to the private bar. Some jurisdictions have a mixture of both in-house legal aid lawyers and the private bar.
We are looking at that issue, and if the committee wants, we can give you a copy of that report on innovations in legal aid that we undertook a couple of years ago. It was an interesting report, because we got a number of key individuals from other sectors of society to sit on the board. For example, we had the head of the Ottawa Hospital and used the experience that they had in reducing wait times, etc., in the hospital system, and looked at what kinds of innovations they used there, and whether they could also be applied to the criminal justice system. We looked at whether we could learn from innovations in other parts of society.
It's an interesting study, and we can provide you with a copy of it.