The Cromwell report is really good on civil and family law.
What it doesn't address in detail are the issues around poverty law. Poverty law advocates say that the Cromwell report is really good within the parameters of its scope, but it doesn't address a lot of important poverty law issues.
Another comment on Cromwell is that it doesn't talk a lot about rural and remote services, which obviously is an important issue in a country such as Canada.
These are not fundamental critiques of Cromwell. We just wish that Cromwell had gone a bit further to address these additional issues.
In terms of how the federal government or a federal strategy might address poverty law, for example, I think Cromwell is a good start, and the Cromwell process is a good start. There are a lot of people across the country who do poverty law, who know a lot about poverty law, who are aware of what the needs are, and who I think would be helpful in terms of developing a strategy.
From the perspective of access to justice, I would say, just apropos of the timing, that the re-establishment of the court challenges program is a very good thing, because that's another means of achieving access to justice through test-case litigation, as opposed to having to replicate the services on the ground over and over again.