Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
My colleagues have already canvassed a number of areas I would have asked about, including legal aid, the victims fund, immigration and refugee law and the Canadian Judicial Council, so I'm going to be very brief. I'm going to ask the indulgence of my colleagues to not have their eyes glaze over because I'm going to go back to disaggregated data. Any time people say words like “disaggregated data”, normal people zone out, rightfully, and when government ministers answer with a whole-of-government response, I think opposition members wonder which will come first: catastrophic climate change or action by the government.
Let me just turn to this question of disaggregated data, and I have two questions.
One is the general question that the minister left to his officials. Is there specific funding in the Department of Justice to do work on disaggregating data so that we know more about the extent of systemic racism in the justice system and can learn more about its causes?
My second question also has to do with disaggregated data. Are we looking further at data with regard to two other issues, one of which is gender and the second of which is Canadians living in poverty? We know that quite often the legal system comes down quite hard on people without the financial resources to defend themselves against charges.
Those are my two questions for the deputy minister.
Thank you.