In light of all the evidence that we have heard, and which is summarized here, I feel obliged to make a gesture to challenge the decision last September 25 to abolish the Court Challenges Program, not only for linguistic minorities in Quebec, but for linguistic minorities outside Quebec, and for vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, women and the poor.
I think that all the evidence, if listened to objectively, argues for the need to maintain this program. Besides, Canada, at the international level, has signed agreements and treaties that, were the program to be abolished, would make it look bad in the eyes of the world.