Thank you very much for that question.
Access to justice is one of my priorities. One of the first things I did—and this is also partly in response to Mr. Brock's question—was to add 115 new superior court positions across Canada over the last number of years, with budgets that have increased the judicial complement in order to help the system of justice.
We have worked on increasing funding for legal aid—in particular, criminal legal aid, which is critically important. We have realized that it will simply require many more resources with respect to legal aid. An additional $60 million is being invested this year, in 2023-24, again increasing the amount of money we're investing in legal aid a great deal.
We're also working with Black leadership across Canada on the elaboration of a Black justice strategy. We have nine experts from across Canada who are taking in information from previous reports and filling in gaps on their own, and they will report to us by the end of the year in terms of how we can better address the systemic racism against Black and racialized people in our criminal justice system.
Those are just a number of examples that are particularly pertinent to your province of Nova Scotia, but I can assure you that we are working across the country in order to increase access to justice.