I support Maître Doucet's comments completely. I would add, though, that it's perhaps more clear in law because of the quasi-constitutional legislation and because the constitutional language rights are more developed than the equality rights side. The positive obligation on the part of the federal government is very clear in that area, and we've heard that said already.
There's probably equally a strong argument under section 15 of the charter that there is a positive obligation on the federal government as well, but because that jurisprudence is less advanced it's not as clear. It would take another case to clarify that.
So I think that there are strong constitutional reasons and a moral obligation on the federal government to re-establish the program as a whole. Certainly the Canadian Bar Association is firmly opposed to reinstating only part of the program. It's the wrong thing to do.