Justice committee  It is possible. Would we get buy-in from every province, recognizing the distinct region of each jurisdiction in this country? I'm not certain. We do have overarching policy objectives that we're hoping each province and territory will implement, but would we get to the point whe

Justice committee  All of our programming at Justice is to try to take away a barrier to access to justice. We want everyone to have equal opportunity to access. We know that economically disadvantaged Canadians face a barrier to getting access to a lawyer due to their economic situation. Therefore

Justice committee  Yes, and that's why, through our formula, we're looking at the indigenous population, the rural population, and people facing certain Criminal Code charges. We're trying to narrow in on, as Hana mentioned earlier, males aged 12 to 35. We're trying to narrow in on those areas that

Justice committee  The case you're describing is civil legal aid, which is covered under the Canada social transfer. While we are aware of the services that legal aid plans would be providing under civil, it's not a policy area that the Department of Justice explores in great detail because it is m

Justice committee  To respond to your question, we don't hand the money over. There's a reimbursement.

Justice committee  Through a reporting requirement, the provinces would have to indicate to us what they actually spent the resources on. Then, we would assess their final claims and the reporting requirements, and then we would pay out. Normally, we're not paying out resources until several months

Justice committee  Yes. As our colleagues from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics mentioned earlier, we're trying to get a more robust legal aid survey so we'd have better outcome measures, and we're looking at these types of services. Obviously with the federal budget 2016 investment in in

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. The visa lift for Mexico was on December 1, so we are in contact with all the provinces to monitor that situation. We don't expect there will be an influx immediately, but we do understand that perhaps there will be more asylum seekers coming in, and

Justice committee  B.C. has started to watch it now.

Justice committee  B.C. was a little worried. Ontario is watching. Perhaps we'll see it in the spring and summer, or perhaps as we get closer to the American inauguration.

Justice committee  If you're referring to the main estimates, then the programs that were receiving supplementary estimates today would have had a zero or a dash, because they would not have been appropriated yet. For the aboriginal justice strategy, supporting families, and immigration and refugee

Justice committee  Following authority from cabinet and Treasury Board approval, if, in advance, we know a supplementary estimate is coming, we would risk manage from a cash perspective and we would spend those funds. But there is a risk that we would not receive the appropriation if Parliament did