You say the Supreme Court has served Canada well. I pretty much agree with you that it has served Canada well; on the other hand, it has not served Quebec very well. As a general rule, whenever there are disputes or disagreements between Quebec and the Canadian government, the Supreme Court, as our former Premier, Maurice Duplessis, used to say, is like the tower of Pisa: it always leans in the same direction.
Could that be attributable, at least in part, to the fact that a certain proportion of judges do not even understand French and have really never shown the necessary sensitivity to the Francophone population of Canada to hold such a high office? You really believe that there are two components to this system, one Francophone and one Anglophone. But should we not ensure that the most important and decisive institutions in the country can operate equally well in one or the other language, with respect to each--