“Clarify” is a broad word. That's why I quoted that from the purpose. “Clarification” is a broad word and would include a restrictive interpretation. On any given day, the courts of this country are interpreting laws, sometimes more restrictively and sometimes more broadly.
When we are dealing with something as important as the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it is important that both sides of arguments be heard. We heard from organizations that appeared before us as witnesses that they had applied for funding to either be intervenors or to be primary litigants to an action and were refused. That really sticks in the craw of many Canadians.
It's not a personal attack on you. It's that the program itself was unbalanced.