Yes, and I think just to add to what the previous panel was saying about the introduction of the Court Challenges Program, the Court Challenges Program was introduced at the time of the Blaikie case. I suspect that it was involved in funding the Blaikie case. It was a consequence of then Prime Minister Trudeau deciding that he would reject the requests from the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal to use the power of disallowance to strike that down.
Basically, what then Prime Minister Trudeau decided was that he would not use that tool, the power of disallowance, to strike down this legislation, but that he would create this program that would enable those institutions to challenge what they felt were unjust decisions by government. It was the introduction of a new tool in the context of major complaints. In fact, I think the initial request for the power of disallowance was even earlier, in 1974, with Bill 22, but through both Bill 22 and Bill 101, both in 1974 and three years later in 1977, there was a strong desire on the part of those school boards that were seeing access to those schools narrowed dramatically by those two pieces of legislation, to call upon the federal government for help and ask it to use the power of disallowance and strike down those pieces of legislation.
Then Prime Minister Trudeau, much as Prime Minister Laurier had done 80 years earlier, said he was not going to use that tool, but that he was going to create this new mechanism to equalize the forces of communities and government.