Thank you, Madam Chair.
I regret that I wasn't able to be here for the first part of the meeting as a result of a competing responsibility.
Let me turn to an issue. If you've discussed it, then don't answer the question, and if it's outside the ambit of your own concerns, you can tell me.
While I was the Minister of Justice, I was particularly concerned about the absence of a comprehensive and sustainable legal aid program. At the last annual meeting of federal, provincial, and territorial ministers of justice, there was a unanimous recommendation calling on the government of the day--which was subsequently defeated--to enact a comprehensive and sustainable legal aid program. One of the things, of course, that helped prompt this was the disproportionate impact that the absence of such a comprehensive legal aid program has on the poor and disadvantaged, including its impact on women and custody cases, or claimants in income security matters and the like. In fact, it's a whole issue of income securities.
Have you done any studies in your area on the prejudicial impact of the lack of legal aid on income security as it effects women, and senior women in particular?