Thank you all for being here. I appreciate your testimony.
My question is for the Canadian Bar Association. In your brief on page 5, you say that in 2003 you called for a separate federal access-to-justice transfer to emphasize that access to justice should be seen as an essential public service and given similar recognition as health care under the Canada Health Act
First, do you still call for that? Second, what would that look like? The Canada Health Act basically provides a national framework. It designates the basic services we want to see right across the country and says that in exchange for each of the provinces living up to those standards, we will write a cheque. Is that the sort of thing we're talking about?
Third, would this extend to the level of medicare, say, some sort of legal care approach, where we have a single, publicly paid, private delivery situation, if that doesn't terrify the lawyers?