The ironic part of the court challenges program is that it's government funding to challenge itself. On principle alone, I cannot support the court challenges program. Regardless of whether the causes are worthy, and there have been times, I know—for example, I supported, personally not financially, Dr. Chaoulli in his challenge to health care in Canada—but the fact is that he took it upon himself to challenge the law. The government, of course, was backing with taxpayers' dollars to defend against his case, and unfortunately, in that example we were outnumbered by government lawyers.
On June 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.