I also remember hearing from an earlier witness, the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic. In part of their submission, they noted that many clinic clients are immigrant and refugee women living in or fleeing from domestic violence, whose immigration status and income support are often tied to or dependent on their maintaining a relationship with their abusive spouse. We have this nexus of immigration and refugee law with family law, and of course the civil portion of legal aid is tied up in the Canada social transfer, so it's interesting to see that both areas have their struggles.
I also noted that your association, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, was one of the signatories urging the federal government, notably the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, to suspend the safe third country agreement with the United States.