Thank you very much.
Really, I just want to make a couple of comments, Mr. Chair.
I think the committee can recognize that there are concerns with some aspects of the court challenges program. One of the concerns, for example, I think, is that it has a fairly wide mandate, meaning that it covers lots of different issues. As we know, the two main thrusts are equality rights and language rights.
There have been some significant cases won that have been beneficial, for example, to official language communities, and Monsieur Godin has mentioned some. One of the difficulties we have, though, is that if we speak against the court challenges program or say that we have concerns against the court challenges program, the opposition will often attack with, “Well, then, you're against the language rights that Monsieur Godin was talking about.” But I would say no, that is not necessarily so.
Within all the cases that the court challenges program has assisted, there have been some that have been very positive, very good, but there have been others that have been much more questionable. The opposition often says that the court challenges program gives access to Canadians, all Canadians, to the court system. But that's not entirely true. It's a third party organization that determines which causes will be funded, which causes will advance, and which ones won't. It's a selective process, and there's some subjectivity in that.
Even in the testimonies we've heard from other witnesses, there is controversy in that, in that there are Canadians who are concerned that only...and I don't speak here about language rights, I speak here actually more in the—