The reason I mention it is because when I used to go across the country, I kept hearing increasing concern from low-income people, including single women and people involved in custody disputes and a whole range of issues, that the lack of legal assistance was prejudicing their ability to advance a claim or to have a quality of arms, as they say, in the context of a claim. I felt that government was somehow ignoring this and that it was falling between different stools.
I'm just hoping the new government—and I say this in a non-partisan way—will take up something that we in fact did not initiate sufficiently and that we can move forward on it. I think poor and disadvantaged Canadians are looking to us for leadership in that regard.