The Canadian Bar Association is here neither to condemn nor to support a particular allocation of a particular decimal point or dollars and cents. So at the end of the day, the Supreme Court has affirmed that, if adequately explained, the government can choose its allocation of resources. The problem here is that we don't understand--and with all due respect, we don't think that a reasonable reader of the commission report can understand--the effect that the change in the commission's recommendations from what they were in the government's proposal will have on the government's social and economic programs. It's that vacuum or void that renders, in our respectful view, the government response subject to criticism.
On October 25th, 2006. See this statement in context.