It's very clear that legal aid is woefully inadequate across Canada. Some of you may know that the Canadian Bar Association is actually bringing a test case in that area. We're funding it ourselves. It would not have been funded by the program.
The reality is that legal aid is there primarily for individuals to use in dealing with their personal legal issues. What the court challenges program funded is a niche on its own, completely separate from that, of public interest cases that clarify the law. You spoke about clarifying the law as if it's something we do just for the intellectual pleasure of knowing what our Constitution means. That's not why we do this work; it's to make those rights meaningful for Canadians as an aspect of their citizenship. The two are very much connected.
Yes, we need more funding for legal aid, but we should also also reinstate the court challenges program.