For example, if someone from Windsor insists on a trial in French and there's no bilingual or French-speaking judge in that division, then they will have to travel at their own expense with their witnesses and counsel. The whole apparatus will have to move to another judicial division. That's how things are done in common law provinces, except for New Brunswick. There aren't thousands of trials, but that is the reality facing an individual who is determined to have his or her trial conducted in French. If there's no judge or all of the apparatus necessary to hold a trial in the language of the accused, but the accused nevertheless insists and is very determined, there's no choice. That's reality.
On May 3rd, 2007. See this statement in context.