The charter of rights obviously applies to both the federal jurisdiction and provincial jurisdictions, as well as municipal jurisdictions. I think I can speak to the history of the program, and I think it's clear from the cabinet records that have now been released that Mr. Trudeau's government—the government of Pierre Trudeau, the first Trudeau—was seized with the issue of Bill 101, or what we now refer to as Bill 101, the Parti Québécois' language legislation. They were concerned that parts of that language legislation were unconstitutional or would cause other problems for the federal government, and they considered simply having the Attorney General launch a challenge on behalf of the federal government.
I think it's clear also from those records that the federal government cabinet considered using the disallowance power to disallow the legislation altogether but found that it would be in its political interest not to pursue either of those avenues for challenging the legislation, and therefore the Court Challenges Program was originally conceived of as a way of achieving what either disallowance or a lawsuit on behalf of the federal government against the Government of Quebec would achieve but without incurring the political costs that a direct challenge or direct use of the disallowance power would have meant.