I understand that this can be difficult. There are other cases. For example, this was done in the case of the official language of accused individuals. We can get proceedings in French. We can get the information. It isn't an obligation of result, but an obligation to inform Parliament of what is going on and what might have happened. If we don't get a response, we won't go after the government. We can write that a given province did not respond, but at least we could see what is going on. We can't just draft legislation, throw it at the provinces, and tell them to handle it, then not care about what happens. We need to be a little more responsible and reasonable.
On November 25th, 2014. See this statement in context.