So the federal government paid tens of thousands of dollars to try to stop you and Mary--your family--from having rights that normally should have been accorded to you.
In a real sense, this debate isn't about subsidizing people through the court challenges program; it's about trying to have a level playing field so that the huge subsidies the federal government already applies--the federal government in this case being Conservative--to try to squash rights are actually counter-balanced by some ability of individuals, of Canadians, to fight back.