Thank you. My question is for the Quebec Community Groups Network, the QCGN. Last week, representatives from the CCP mentioned that the program was created to fund court cases to promote the equality rights and language rights guaranteed under the Canadian Constitution or the Charter.
In the documents we received, it says the following:
A case is a test case only if it deals with a problem or raises an argument that has not already been decided on by the courts and has the potential to assist official language minorities in Canada to protect their language rights. Under our agreement with the federal government, the Program is only allowed to fund a case if it advances official language rights under the Constitution or the Charter and is an important test case. All of the Program's funding presently comes from the federal government. The government agreed to provide money to the Program only after making a list of things the Program is not allowed to do with it. Under the agreement with the government, we cannot fund any of the following: challenges to provincial law, policy or practice; any case that covers an issue already funded by the Program or that is already before the courts; complaints under the Official Languages Act;
Of what significance was the CCP to the QCGN?