The target set by Justice Brown was about 40. The number of vacant positions in Canada as a whole now stands at about 30.
I appointed 137 judges during my first 12 months in office, when the record was 109 up to then, so I beat that record by about 30 appointments. As well, I am continuing to make appointments quickly and I will keep doing so, because it is absolutely necessary that we be able to fill all the vacant positions if we want all Canadians to have access to justice.
I think it is interesting that the articles critical of the situation of victims of sexual assaults that occur in Ontario do not talk about the superior courts, which are under federal jurisdiction; they all talk about the Ontario Court of Justice, a provincial court, and how the process can be accelerated at that level.