Our concern has been that we view as valid the other groups' complaints that court challenges...and you're right, we haven't put in a claim. Obviously, we could see large litigation coming in the near future. Again, if the National Assembly proceeds with the Quebec constitution, which we support, then there could be a lot of litigation related to that.
We feel that, based on what we've seen of the program as it relates to other groups, there has been unfair bias against certain positions within that group and often, we feel, the support of only certain points of view within that minority community. We are the beginning of an alternative point of view within the anglophone community. Up until now there has been primarily two factions; we're a third.
We have put forward privately the suggestion that if a matching program could come into place, perhaps those parties and people who want some kind of restoration might be able to reassure people on the government side that the program could be run better. We're here, in part, in the spirit of compromise, because our idea, as it applies to regular funding, could also be applied to the court challenges program. Otherwise, the concerns about the program are so vast that the government will feel justified in cutting off the support. So it's a compromise.
