Certainly. In the first place, the Court Challenges Program was not created in order to provide funds to all and sundry. As you said yourself, one of the criteria does state that:
prior to approving the case for funding, the panel should be satisfied that the applicant or the individual or group the applicant represents requires financial assistance to proceed with the case.
Therefore we cannot deny the fact that there is an element—
There's a means test that has to be done in order to make sure that the applicants who can afford to go to court and to clarify the Constitution and the charter and the cases don't use public money to do so. Only in cases where one can show that there's a lack of funds can this be applied.
As to legal aid, I'm not a lawyer, but I know that in many provinces you cannot use legal aid to fund constitutional cases against any government anyway. So it's not a question of whether there are alternatives to that program. And you talk about there being billions and billions. I would say that for $2.5 million, you had quite a good case law built, and this case law is not finished because of the number of cases that are still outstanding and coming to us all the time. So it is building, and it is, I think, useful to continue to build that case law.