Yes, I think so. I think it was a response to a problem he had seen. As a former minister, he thought that the Supreme Court's interpretation was not consistent with the government's intentions when it voted for the Montreal Convention. The government never thought that the Montreal Convention would take precedence over the Official Languages Act. His bill was therefore intended to ensure that the Official Languages Act would take precedence over the Montreal Convention.
We had indicated our position on this. We maintained that, as a quasi-constitutional law, it already took precedence, but a majority of the Supreme Court held the opposite. It said that the Montreal Convention, as an international agreement, took precedence.
His bill was a response to that decision, and that response was consistent with the position we argued before the Supreme Court.