I will be very brief.
Thank you for being with us, Minister. As you may know, I represent a sizeable part of the minority anglophone community in Quebec. You and your government talk about open federalism, but you have closed one of the doors available to minority language communities in Canada by eliminating the Court Challenges Program. Even the Montreal Gazette is disappointed with the decision to do away with that program. It even recommended, a few days before the Speech from the Throne, that the government, at the very least, restore that program for the language communities.
Do you think the case law has effectively come to an end as regards language rights in Canada? Is it your opinion that there will be no further cases coming out of the language communities—anglophone or francophone—and for that reason, we no longer deserve that program?
My second question has to do with the Canadian Railway Museum, Exporail. As you know, most Members of Parliament voted in favour of your department incorporating this exceptional and internationally-renowned museum into the firmament of the federal government's national museums network. At the time, we were told that the national museums had to be located in Ottawa, in the national capital, but since then, there has been talk of moving the Portrait Gallery and, in addition, funding is to be provided for the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg.
I would be interested in hearing your comments on those two topics.