Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for your testimony and for presenting this excellent bill.
I'm going to ask you a question with regard to the court challenges program, if I may.
We know that program is a valuable tool for the official language minority communities to protect their linguistic rights, whether we're talking about the francophones outside of Quebec or the English-speaking community in Quebec. However, both the Bloc and the Conservatives have called for the program to be eliminated.
Can you tell us why the court challenges program is so important to protecting Canada's linguistic duality?