I tend to agree. You have two different rights organizations here, one of which gets funding from the Court Challenges Program, the CCF, and one that is more radically progressive, Egale Canada, that probably receives funding from the Court Challenges Program. We're not sure about that because there's a lack of transparency. That already shows the kind of partisan charge here.
I would say that there is an extent to which Mr. Dehaas makes a great point, which is that if Pierre Poilievre wins the next election, then the Conservatives are in charge of this program and they reorganize it. We could put in institutional structures that require kind of bipartisan approval for lawsuits to go forward, and there are ways you could model that by requiring it to be multi-party, in that every party needs to approve a lawsuit before it goes forward. There could be some kind of formal rule like that, or every party gets to nominate one member of the board or something like that.
However, this is never going to fully work, because your party is never going to agree to the NDP and the Greens both getting to choose somebody and then there being a non-Conservative-picked majority on that committee. There are all kinds of problems that you're going to experience this way, and inevitably, there's going to be the temptation to rig it your way, to fund the kinds of cases that Conservatives care about.
The problem is that there's just always going to be this back and forth. The problem also comes in the devil in the details, the difficulty of properly designing an institution that gets bipartisan buy-in. That's just very difficult to organize. I'm not saying that it's impossible; I'm just saying that it's going to be very difficult.