Thank you, Ms. Wernick and your fellow panellists, for your excellent presentation. I want to start with a specific question and, time allowing, I have a couple of general ones.
The question deals with the linguistic rights program. My colleague François Choquette has a private member's bill seeking essential bilingualism among Supreme Court of Canada judges, not requiring a translation for those people. He's framing it as an equal access to justice issue. I notice in your presentation you talked about a case whereby the RCMP in New Brunswick was being challenged for the ability of citizens to communicate in the official language of their choice. Also by way of preamble, I notice Graham Fraser, our official languages commissioner, has criticized the government for failing to take steps to ensure that the superior court justices across the land are essentially bilingual, again as an equal access to justice question.
If legislation is not brought forward to address this in Parliament or in the provinces in question—I'm thinking of the Caron case in Alberta—then is this conceivably an issue that the court challenges program might address?