I want to say thank you to the minister and thank you to the Right Honourable Kim Campbell for being here with us. It is a distinct pleasure to have you and to have your wisdom shared with the committee.
To the Right Honourable Kim Campbell, I want to ask you about this tapping reference you made right at the outset, because I really think it encapsulates a lot of the barriers for under-represented communities coming forward or being asked to come forward. As you aptly put it, those shoulders are not traditionally the ones that are tapped.
Can you talk about your analysis and how you get at the foundations of those kinds of concerns, because when you work on diversifying the bench, something we have committed to as a government, you find sometimes that there isn't the applicant pool. Where do you think it needs to start? Do we need to start at the law school level, encouraging people from under-represented groups to apply to become lawyers so that they one day become puisne judges and so one day they get to the point of becoming potential candidates for a Supreme Court appointment such as the one that is being proposed for Justice Jamal?
Ms. Campbell, can you refer to that?