Thank you, Mr. Chair. I can say that all 33 communities are engaged by the Department of Justice towards developing their community justice committees, but that not all communities have the same level of participation amongst their actual committees. There are a handful of communities that, although there has been outreach, are still working to have greater development of their community justice programs. I can tell you, from 2019-2020, that 30 of the 33 did access funding for community justice programs, so those other three, we certainly, as I say, continue to be engaged with them, but there is still some work to be done. Mr. Chair, this is an area in general that, while funding over 2020-2021 is set, it's certainly my hope that this is an area where we can continue to work with community partners and Indigenous governments to really engage the activity within the communities, so that it's really about a partnership, about what's happening on the ground, and not simply us going to them but them joining us and moving community justice forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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