Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm very interested in these discussions.
Mr. Justice Lamer, it is a greater honour to have you here before us.
Given your experience, it is very important to ask you a question about judicial activism.
I have a question about judicial activism. Professor Grant Huscroft of the University of Western Ontario, which I think you all know was founded by a great Moncton jurist, Ivan Cleveland Rand, said recently that perhaps the reason the Conservative government has turned somewhat on the idea of judicial appointments and why there are, in some quarters, musings about elected judges is that there is a reaction to judicial activism with respect to the interpretation of the charter over these many years. What I would like to ask you, Justice Lamer, is whether you think there has been rampant activism with respect particularly to the Canadian judiciary and its interpretation of the charter over the last 25 years. Is it diminishing? And do you think this has anything to do with what we perceive on this side as an attack on the judiciary?