I might have been able to go through the law society. The law society program in Ontario is quite restricted. I did it privately because there was also the matter of juggling schedules, and a lot of what the law society provides, at least in Ontario as I understand it—although I would invite you to get other information from the source—is a lot of over-the-phone counselling and counselling by email. So for me, that wasn't the sort of thing I would have benefited from.
I think there are real restrictions in terms of what is available through the member assistance programs, and they're not consistent across the provinces. Some are better than others. I think my recommendation would be to extend these benefits to people who don't otherwise have access to them. That restriction might be limited if there was a robust support system from the law societies in the province, or it would be available in other provinces where there isn't one.
The last question was about privilege. That's something we have to navigate, absolutely. We would have to respect privilege in any discussions that we have with anybody, but as Dr. Kamkar said, you can talk about the issues without disclosing privileged information.
Often the information that is traumatizing becomes part of the public record. Once it becomes part of the public record—