In this study, we are asking ourselves how we could encourage the federal government to support access to justice in French. Perhaps you could suggest other concrete ways of doing that.
We often hear that there are delays in terms of access to justice in French. In Ontario, if people want a case to be heard in French, they have to expect delays. There are often not enough judges or prothonotaries, for example. A number of positions in the legal system cannot be filled in a reasonable time. But everything has to be in place at the same time if a case is to be heard in French.
Does anyone keep track of the delays? Here in our world, we are missing a lot of data. We are told that we have to invest more money, but how can we be assured that the services are really going to improve?