I'm going to keep on repeating this because I want it to get through: our government is a federal institution. It is a federal jurisdiction. Our government found itself in a strange situation when we were asked to intervene in the CALDECH case which is currently before the Supreme Court. One of the judges raised a constitutional issue. The government did not respond. However, after some badgering by the federal Department of Justice, the government decided at a rather late date that it would intervene.
That put us in a strange situation, because the documents show that we want to present some arguments to the Supreme Court of Canada that were not supported by the evidence in the case involving the Northwest Territories at the moment. This also led us to request intervener status in order to set the record straight. We have no funding to draw any links because the program has been eliminated. It will probably cost us $40,000; this will not be easy for us. This will probably mean borrowing, trying to get resources elsewhere, and all sorts of other problems.
They are trying to use the back door, because they are not getting what they want by the front door. The rights of francophones in our community should be respected, but we do not have the resources to fight for them.