Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank everyone who took the trouble to come to this official meeting. It is good to be here.
I am going to be very frank with you: personally and on behalf of my government colleagues, I was a bit offended and disappointed to see that you attended the May 17 consultation, from which we were absent. We also went across Canada and heard different points of view about the Court Challenges Program. I simply wanted to say that because I felt targeted and was personally offended.
I will address my question to Mr. Matte. To begin with, I would like you to explain exactly what criteria or conditions make someone eligible or ineligible for funding under the program. I want to know how the criteria or conditions are set and what the rules are. Who is consulted when these criteria or conditions are established? Have they changed since the program was created in 1994? If so, can you tell us what the changes are?