In British Columbia, we have the provincial sales tax on legal fees, so that 7% of all legal fees is a provincial sales tax to the province. It was brought in ostensibly to fund legal aid. It now just goes into the general revenues. Last year British Columbia raised about $160 million on the provincial sales tax on legal fees and they contribute around $80 million to $90 million to legal aid, so every year they are putting about 80% or 90% into general revenues from the provincial sales tax.
If we dedicated the whole amount of the PST, we would have a reasonably good legal aid plan for criminal law. It wouldn't address all of the other issues, but we have to start seeing the actuarial benefits for the investments. It's quite simple. You put a dollar in; you save this amount. Once people start looking at the system more holistically, get health involved, get housing involved, and look at not just individual people but individuals as parts of families, and families as parts of society, we will start to see the benefit to investing, and it really is an investment in legal aid.