I think certainly I would highly question whether the spirit of section 15 is being met and whether the spirit of the rule of law, which is the foundational principle of our Constitution, is also being met. It's not just across Canada. Even within Ontario, where it's one of the best-funded legal aid programs, you see disparities. We talk about the gender issue in terms of the difference between access to family law versus criminal law. You will see a gender difference in that aspect.
Of course, if you look at the fact that racialized group members are two to six times more likely to live in poverty, then you see a racial aspect as well. The impact on racialized groups and their access to legal aid is also affected as well. All of those issues, I think, come under section 15, but also I think, as Ms. Froc had mentioned, section 7 is an issue as well, and that has been used in some of the cases with respect to a constitutional challenge to access to legal aid for child protection cases, for instance.
I would say that the same argument goes with many other areas of law. When you're being evicted from your home, you should get access to legal aid.