Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to congratulate all of the witnesses for coming here. Since summer is upon us, this is worth mentioning.
My question is for all of the witnesses. Before beginning, I would like to quote an excerpt from the 2003 Summative Evaluation of the Court Challenges Program. It states:
The main purpose of the Program is to clarify certain constitutional provisions relating to equality and language rights.
The document refers to clarification, and one of the main criteria of the program is, and I again quote:
[...] that the Program, as currently delivered, will only support cases that protect and advanced rights covered by the Program. In other words, a group or individual that would present legal arguments calling for a restrictive application of these rights would not receive CCP funding.
The Court Challenges Program was created to clarify certain constitutional provisions regarding equality and language rights.
In your opinion, are there other ways that the government could support court challenges while clarifying certain constitutional provisions regarding language rights?