To kind of build on that, before the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, we had the British North America Act. With all the international agreements Canada had started entering into, it was no longer a domestic remedy because it didn't protect the obligations Canada made to our international partners through international law. So that's where we started to look at how we changed it.
We came up with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and it has been pushed at the international level over and over again by our government, as a way of showing that as committed partners within international law we are protecting the rights of even the most vulnerable in our community.
I was in Geneva in May and presented before the economic, social, and cultural committee At that time, our government stood proudly before that international body and supported having the court challenges program as a way to ensure protection for the most vulnerable in this community and country.
What went wrong? Where was it no longer valuable? That's my question.