Unfortunately, such cases often create precedents. There is a domino effect whereby many other cases will never see the light of day.
Ms. Lalonde, I followed your entire saga, of course, even before becoming an MP. I congratulate you for everything that you did. I was appalled when I found out that the Court Challenges Program had such a tiny budget of less than $3 million. Instead of discussing the program's survival, we should be discussing an increase in funding for it. It would be far more effective and useful.
In the Montfort Hospital case, you raised money. You worked very hard at collecting the money through $5 contributions, as we also sometimes do in our fundraising campaigns. After all, large companies are not the ones that contribute to the Bloc Québécois. Your outstanding fundraising campaign brought in about $400,000, but you did not get much money from the Court Challenges Program.
I would like to know why it was so important to receive less than $100,000, if I remember correctly, from the Court Challenges Program, whereas, thanks to your volunteers, you managed to raise nearly $400,000.