The purpose of the study under way is to examine the bilingual capacity of the judiciary in the superior courts across the country. The study will deal with two issues, namely the judicial appointment process and the language training given to judges in superior courts.
I would like to add a comment to the case that you brought to the attention of the commissioner and that we concluded that we would not be able to investigate. We explained to the person that the court in question, the Alberta Provincial Court, was not an institution that we could investigate. We can, of course, investigate the federal Department of Justice, but not the courts that fall under provincial jurisdiction. That is one of the reasons we had concluded that we could not carry out an investigation. To my knowledge, I don't think that it was a criminal trial. We would need to check that.