Thank you, Mr. Nicholson. I'm glad that some predecessors from the BCCLA were able to play a role in your early legal education. We've been around a long time.
Speaking from the experience of B.C., I think what happened when there was less money for legal aid was that, as you've heard, the Legal Services Society had to prioritize those areas of the law that had constitutional entitlements, or at least areas in which constitutional entitlements had already been established. In order to better preserve certain areas of service, other areas had to be cut back.
The statistics that I gave you come from Legal Services Society annual reports. I would be surprised to hear that there are now one fifth as many family law problems in B.C. as there were in the 1990s. I suspect that there are probably as many.