I'm here today. I was invited to testify about whether or not the court challenges program should be funded, and I've given reasons why it should not be. I think your question falls outside of why I've been invited here today.
Regarding some of your examples on francophone minority rights and so on, Chief Mountain in British Columbia is a disadvantaged individual, and he was denied funding because he was told, the court challenges program said, he did not fit their vision of equality. The point is that there are different visions of equality; there are different visions of how we can best accommodate minority rights. I think it's far better if it's done without recourse to the courts, but even if it is done with recourse to the courts, there are different perspectives on exactly how courts should decide on minority rights issues. Even among judges, a lot of the Supreme Court of Canada decisions are split. They're split 5:4, 3:6, 8:1, what have you. So there are differing opinions.