Thank you, Madam Chair. One of the big gaps in this area is that there are a lot of lawyers, but they are all in Yellowknife. It's really hard, once you get outside of Yellowknife, to get access to Justice. Legal aid largely deals with criminal matters and family matters. I know the Legal Aid Commission runs an outreach legal aid clinic, but it is staffed with one lawyer and one court worker. I know we've had trouble staffing that. I think there's a lot of work to be done in this area. I've worked in legal clinics previously that had dozens of staff and articling students, and they were largely federally funded. The John Howard Society runs them across the country. I think there really is potential in the Northwest Territories to create some sort of legal aid clinic that deals with all of the other issues that the outreach is starting to work on. The question out of that is: I believe there is a federal access to justice services agreement that funds quite a bit of our legal aid. Can I just get a clarification on how much federal money we get in this area?
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