Well, very valuable. Not to have everything in electronic form—I think it's important to have it in printed form, and once again, in both official languages so that your future generations can have that option of reading it in either. I think it's important. But once again, it's peculiarly Canadian, I would think. I'm not sure whether that would be applicable in many of the countries around the world, and certainly in a lot of the countries around the world, it would be problematic for them to even have computer-generated versions of their debates.
Article 19(1) states this:
Either English or French may be used by any person in, or any pleading in or process issuing from, any court established by Parliament.
Well, once again we go back to the basis of this motion, and to say that any court established by our Parliament is going to imply that it can be in any foreign country, that's awfully presumptuous. Once again, I go article by article here of problematic areas. I can't find articles here that aren't really affronted by this motion. To order the Minister of Foreign Affairs to enter into a country on the basis that a statement in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms talks about any court established by the Canadian Parliament, into another country to address an issue that is established by Canada's Parliament, I think that's just an impossible thing to do.
Article 19(2) reads as follows:
Either English or French may be used by any person in, or any pleading in or process issuing from, any court of New Brunswick.
Well, that one is very specific, and it deals with New Brunswick, and once again it goes to the character of Canadians wishing to have a made-in-Canada constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and certainly it's very specific about New Brunswick. But it would also imply that if there are other provinces or territories that wish to have that special designation, they could be applying to the specifics of a constitutional amendment or whatever to be able to add their names to that too.
Then we have article 20:
Any member of the public in Canada has the right to communicate with, and to receive available services from, any head or central office of an institution of the Parliament or government of Canada in English or French, and has the same right with respect to any other—