Those are not Mr. Bolanos' claims. I don't want to dwell too much on these legal details. You won the legal war. I am not questioning that. I'm questioning the relevance of paying lawyers instead of just proceeding in French in Montreal, the way they probably proceed in English in Toronto. There is no reason why, when someone speaks neither English nor French, we should pick a language over another for them. If the decision is to start in English and, before the actual hearing, a lawyer asks that the evidence be translated into French, I think it is legitimate to proceed... This is the spirit of the official languages. You can win in the Federal Court, that's not surprising at all under our federal system. But I don't think that's the idea behind it.
On December 16th, 2010. See this statement in context.