Mr. Speaker, perhaps my English is not as good as it could have been in delivering the previous answer.
What is the role I see for the federal government. I will use as an example my own province. Obviously the parties have the option of separating and dealing with provincial jurisdiction later on, or immediately the option of divorce and dealing with federal jurisdiction.
In provinces that do not have the types of mediation services or programs alluded to by my colleague from Quebec, and if the committee was to determine that there ought to be federal funding in place for mediation at the divorce level which is a federal jurisdiction, then certain individuals in a province where there may not be provincial mediation available could avail themselves immediately of the Divorce Act as opposed to the provincial statutes under which they might otherwise operate. They could avail themselves of what might be available and provided at the federal level in the supreme courts of the provinces with federal funding.
That would be the leadership role I would see in child custody and access cases.