It's unlikely. There are some women getting payments because of the residential school settlement, so that could certainly impact women.
It's already impacted a woman for whom we've been trying to get a conviction review. In order to get a conviction review, we had a lawyer involved who was going to do it through legal aid. Now legal aid won't cover it, so we're having that argument right now. This is a matter where everybody agrees, including the corrections service, that she should not have been convicted of the offence. It was an assisted suicide, still on corrections' books, and she was convicted of murder. We're trying to get a conviction review. She can't at this point get legal aid unless she taps into moneys that have been put in trust for if and when she gets out at some point in the future.
It seems pretty egregious, after ten years of a massive history of sexual abuse and physical abuse in residential schools, to then have that money taken away in order to get her out, and then to have no resources to re-enter the community if we succeed. That's the most current situation.
The flip side of what my colleague Mr. Fineberg has talked about is the number of women who can't get legal aid for family matters when they're required to get social assistance, usually when they get out of prison. They're required to try to get spousal or child support first, or sometimes spousal and child support, before they can go ahead. So that would be an area where it could impact as well.