The other important thing to remember is that the government twice evaluated the court challenges program to see whether it was doing its job or whether there was a better way of doing it. Both times the resounding evaluation by an independent evaluator was that it was meeting its objectives, it was doing it well, it was doing it efficiently, and it really had developed the expertise to make those kinds of funding decisions.
The program was set up because initially the government had a funding pool that it provided to official language minority groups. There are issues about conflict of interest and so on, and about who makes those decisions. The value of having this independent organization is huge. It's difficult to imagine a way of strengthening that. There have been no criticisms laid against the program that could be substantiated, so why do something different, other than making it stronger and bigger and safeguarding it from the kinds of political things that are going on right now?