A lot of programs are being created to train workers. The federal government has made a lot of investments in the provinces and territories for training. It is important to do that, but there has to be general training and targeted training. What the federal government funds should not be funded by the provinces. There are also duplications in legal assistance services, for example. That is happening a lot.
At present, we are seeing all sorts of experiments and approaches. For example, criminology students or law students are giving legal information. They are supervised by professors, of course, but debatable practices are also being funded by both the federal government and the provinces. It would therefore be a good idea to look at what is already funded and deal with the problems that have evaded us or have not been documented.
We are currently working on a project to improve the recognition of the rights of people who make a statement before the Review Board for mental disorder. We are realizing that these people are very ill-informed. There are virtually no reports, and there are no mechanisms for cooperation among the organizations. There is a lot of work to do in this regard.
So we have to do a critical review. There are some very good programs for witness preparation in Canada, and it is good to see lawyers giving legal advice. We needed that.
There are also major gaps when it comes to victims' representation before certain tribunals, and we need to take the time to deal with these things. Analyzing how the CVBR has been implemented should make it possible to devote some time to this critical analysis.
The provinces and territories are responsible for implementing numerous rights, and they do a lot of other things as well. It is important to make the background we have acquired known, and the CVBR can be used as a lever to advance the rights of all victims. There are populations we have not been able to reach, for reasons that include language and geographic remoteness. We therefore need to analyze these problems so that these rights are accessible to everyone.
In addition, it is not reasonable that in 2022 there are still young lawyers telling us they do not know much about the CVBR. That is unacceptable. There is still a lot of work to do.