One thing we need to recognize is that when a person has legal problems, there is a ripple effect. It affects their income, it affects their employment, it affects their health, and it affects their housing. What we have to recognize is that any framework has to take that into account. There are going to be other issues we need to deal with.
I don't think there has been a study done in Canada yet, but I'd like to see a study done by some academics, perhaps from my own institution, on that issue. There is no question that it happens, so there has to be a multidisciplinary approach to this. Also, that could involve, whether it's diversion into other.... I'm talking about a triage system, and so on.
The other issue that I've come to see from working on this report is what I call the silo effect. We have 13 provinces and territories, each with an attorney general. We have, I'm guessing, 50 different courts among all the provinces and the federal system. We have the different legal aid plans and so on. It is so difficult to get all the pieces to work together and get everybody talking. We have to find a way to coordinate and have these common goals; otherwise, this will be totally in vain. We'll just be talking into the wind here. There has to be a national effort at every single level.