Thank you, Madam Chair. By just the name justice, the name itself implies the need for assistance, the need for intervention and my questions obviously are going to be revolving around the legal aid accessibility to our clients and to our residents.
With applications rising as high as they have in the last number of years, and we went in our business planning preparation phase to address this with the Minister and his team, and I know that I’m very pleased to hear that the Minister will be bringing forward a supp and I appreciate that. But even by doing that, by virtue of adding that one extra position, I have a hard time, and I think a lot of Members here have a hard time believing will that deal with backlog, will that deal with accessibility within a reasonable amount of time. And by reasonable, is four months reasonable? Is three months reasonable? Is 30 days reasonable? Can the Minister clarify have they done the studies as to what that one extra person will do in legal aid to mitigate the backlog so that maybe we can get some timelines in terms of what efficiencies we’re going to see with just maybe one more position? Or maybe we should be looking at two, maybe three. So I will start with that question first, Madam Chair.