what is the financial cost of the adversarial Family Justice System to Canadian Taxpayers and Families?
Here is a breakdown of the annual costs just for the operations of the Family Justice System only. You the Canadian Taxpayers are paying for this: Cost of Judges Salary $300,000,000 (Three Hundred Million) Cost of Administration, Operations, $400,000,000 (Four Hundred Million) Cost of Court Security – $100,000,000 (One Hundred Million) Cost of Legal Aid – $200,000,000 (Two Hundred Million) Cost of Enforcement – $120,000,000 (1 Hundred and Twenty Million) Cost of Lawyers – $4,600,000,000 (4 Billion, Six Hundred Million) These numbers are estimated, based on the Ontario numbers provided by the Ontario Provincial Auditor, as details for all of Canada were not available. With one third of the total population of Canada residing in Ontario, the totals for Canada were prorated accordingly. In those cases where input numbers included Civil and Criminal justice, the proportion to Family Justice was approximated. These costs do not include the many other associated costs such as mediators, soci
