I would say that the announcement bode ill for the communities. It is clear that the Court Challenges Program helps communities progress significantly. Eliminating the program was akin to cutting both our arms off: we are no longer able to claim our rights before the courts.
History has shown us that if we do not claim our rights before the courts, we are unable to make progress. This afternoon, we could have talked about what the governments of Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario did at certain points in time to adopt laws against French-language schools, so on and so forth. For us, the Court Challenges Program is a big piece of the pie. To the eyes of the entire community, the program's abolition is seen as a major setback to their development.