As the author suggested, the reason why the justice system doesn't have parity of funding  with that of education and health care is indeed political. This also reflects a dark undercurrent in Canadian society. Ask yourself who are most acquainted with the judicial system? Yup, it's the marginalized, most specifically natives----and who wants to help them?

Nevertheless, I raised the inquiry rhetorically by virtue of this fact. Your response regarding education and heath care, moreover, raises difficult questions. I guess we don't follow the American examples of privatizing education to a lesser extent,and health care to a much greater, is because both are pregnant with value judgement. While one could argue that an egalitarian approach toward education funding is somewhat misguided, I think our aversion toward following the American model of health care is well founded with reference to cost. Seriously, the idea that a doctor runs a business was put to rest long ago.