The Harper government's intention was to abolish the entire court challenges program. Thereafter, the department expressed its opinion that the program was very important, if not almost constitutional, and it was impossible to abolish it without compromising Canadians' language rights. Given that situation, the government of the day was forced to maintain a degree of funding, but without protecting the court challenges program in its entirety.
As I was telling you, each time a Conservative government takes power, everything is abolished. The approach we wanted was certainly to do something about the appointments. We wanted a committee to appoint the most competent people in the country. In the next few days, I will have good news for you on the matter.