Yes.
Jurisprudence is the motor of any legislative evolution in societies. We need to read the past decisions to make sure that we can foresee how we're going to, as we say in French,
evolve as a society.
What I really want to know is whether there was any direct response to that.
Witnesses came and described situations I found really sad. An anglophone lawyer in Quebec, for instance, was unable to obtain a decision in the language in which he had pleaded. Elsewhere, the opposite situation also occurs. It is difficult to obtain a decision in French in Manitoba, for instance. We were told that lawyers who pleaded in English in Quebec did not receive the decisions in English. In fact, they will never have access to the jurisprudence in that language. Consequently, in English Canada, outside of Quebec, it is impossible to follow the evolution of law and the interpretation of the law there in the language of Shakespeare.
And that was the gist of my question.