Thanks, Madam Chair.
I was obviously thinking exactly the same thoughts as Mr. Lewis, because some of the questions he posed were the exact ones I was going to pose. I am going to follow up on his questions on legal aid funding.
If you go back to 2016, the increases in legal aid funding from the federal perspective arose in large measure, from what I have seen, because some of our provincial counterparts had cut funding to legal aid. I can only speak to Ontario because that's where I'm from. I know the current provincial government in Ontario cut legal aid funding in its budget in...probably 2017. Then there was an ask to us to try to compensate for that shortfall. A lot of that was in the context of immigration law, because of a large number of immigrants coming to Ontario—Toronto specifically—where the need for legal aid funding was even greater. The issue also involved refugees coming to Canada.
This funding was meant to be temporary. We did it for more than one year. In your discussions with the province, does this come up in a way that would suggest to you that the provinces might have a change of heart and increase funding for legal aid back to the levels they previously did, or even higher than that?