Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. Liberal justice critic for his speech and for his good work at the committee on this particular study.
I wonder if he could give the House a bit of a flavour of some of the testimony we heard from witnesses.
There were a few issues brought up about the lack of sufficient French-language, legally trained, court document translators in the province of Saskatchewan, and the time it takes to find a judge who speaks in the other official language, whatever the majority language was in a particular province. In some provinces, and Yukon springs to mind, sometimes it took a bit of time to find a francophone judge to take a trial in that province and to preside over preliminary hearings. We also heard some testimony from one particular practitioner about the delay in finding access to anglophone judges and services in some smaller communities in Quebec.
I wonder if the hon. member could comment on that and just give us a flavour of some of the other testimony that the committee heard.