We're fortunate to have courts. They're the watchdogs that guarantee that, if a government or agency, whatever it may be, ever fails at its task, we'll have a place where we can go and seek remedy. The flipside of that, obviously, is the extraordinary cost that entails for the ordinary person, a factor that makes litigants hope they'll never need to appear in court.
As for the state of jurisprudence, it's generally unanimous in the Supreme Court: language rights there are viewed as underlying constitutional principles, a concept also found in the Charter. We feel fortunate those principles are recognized and confirmed. For example, going back to the Mazraani case I referred to, which recently concluded, the Tax Court of Canada, in that instance, had forced a witness to speak English whereas his first language was French. The Supreme Court obviously found that unacceptable and unlawful and held that the witness should have been entitled to speak in French.
However, there are exceptions, such as the British Columbia case you mentioned.