I understand that, but the fact remains that the Court Challenges Program paid those expenses and that the government has terminated it, thus leaving the communities to their own devices. The Court Challenges Program was the ultimate tool of the communities. Gains have been made, but that is due neither to the Liberals nor to the Conservatives. As for the NDP, we weren't there. Whatever the case may be, the tool was taken away from the communities.
If you tell me that you are conducting your investigation and that, at the end of that investigation, you are going to make a decision, I can wait. In the meantime, the community is holding its breath. Lawyers like, for example, Michel Doucet, of the University of Moncton, have done volunteer work for the communities. However, the Conservative government told us that other lawyers made a lot of money with this program. If someone is making money, it's the regiment of lawyers who represent the governments and challenge decisions that favour the minorities. It is the government that mobilizes a lot of lawyers, challenges decisions when we win a case before the courts and takes those cases to the Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court.
As Parliament's official languages watchdog, under the act, you at least have the money from the budgets that our committee has approved. I don't want to attack you on that this morning. The reports are good, but they really reflect the situation. The newspapers report that 50% of federal government positions are still unilingual English. These people can no longer blame the previous government; they've been in power for a year and a half. They appoint ombudsmen who don't speak French. No deputy minister speaks only French. That's what enables us to assess the government's will. It is headed in a very wrong direction.