Yes, certainly.
It's a truism in legal aid circles that criminal services tend to go to men—and, to be even further refined, tend to go to younger men. It's not always true, but proportionally that's the group of society that tends to commit more crimes, and therefore is more eligible for legal aid. On the other side, family law clientele are typically women, typically older women, typically with kids; often a very high percentage of our clients are victims of domestic violence. So there's a gender imbalance there.
You can look it from a gendered perspective, and appropriately so. What should also be considered in the mix, however, is that a lot of other legal aid civil law services, poverty law services, tend to be accessed by women more often than not—concerning landlord and tenant issues, social assistance, and things like that. But that's in Ontario, where, of course, there is not just a criminal program, but a good family program and a very extensive poverty law program. In jurisdictions that are focused primarily on criminal services, with perhaps a bit of child protection work, and maybe a bit of family law, the gender balance is much different. I think it's a very fair inquiry and something that people try to keep in mind when they're thinking about policy priorities.