Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to thank the Minister for bringing this bill forward. It increases the monetary limit in civil cases from $10,000 to $35,000, as the Minister said. In committee this was discussed and it was felt that increasing it from $10,000 to $35,000 would speed up the court process as many people -- I think this is correct, correct me if I’m wrong -- a lot of housing issues that are going to the courts are forced to the Supreme Court because they’re just over $10,000, and this may expedite a number of those situations and allow us to clean up some of the cases outstanding with the Housing Corporation.

I do have a question. I’m curious if the Minister could give us a bit of a rundown on what the limit is

for territorial courts, or I guess provincial courts, in other jurisdictions. How does the $35,000 stand up?