It's a critical problem. I think a lot of the other problems flow from that. It's not just a question of saying let's throw more money at it. However, many of the problems that we could enumerate, such as the cut-off being too low or it being administered in one way or another that was problematic, could fundamentally be traced back particularly to the federal government in the 1990s. In 1996, it changed the way it was paying for things, essentially moving from sharing 50% of the cost of criminal legal aid to covering 20% of the cost. Money is a key piece of it, but that doesn't mean there aren't huge questions about how that money is channelled and how it can best be channelled.
On February 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.