Obviously this is a point of intersection between federal and provincial jurisdiction, where you're talking about the administration of justice. A lot of this, a lot of what we've talked about, has to do with the administration of justice, which is a provincial power, but obviously you also have cost-sharing agreements between the federal government and the provinces. Those have changed over time. We've seen an historic reduction in the federal contribution for things such as legal aid and all of that sort of thing.
My caution is that to the extent that you are going to encourage provinces to do this, which may be all that you decide you can do on a particular issue, that you want to collaborate with them and encourage them to do this as part of their jurisdiction.... I caution that if you encourage them to do it in a particular way within a finite package of financial resources, they will do this at the expense of another part of the system, and almost inevitably that will be at the expense of legal aid funding. Almost inevitably, funding to legal aid and defence counsel is the easiest thing to cut, because nobody's going to be up in arms about that. Other things often get priority.
If you want this to be something that happens across the country, I would encourage you to also think about sharing in the funding of it.