Thank you for the question.
Mr. Serré, I don't know if you're aware of this, but you will be.
I'm a member of the official languages rights expert panel in the court challenges program. So I have a good idea of the types of applications that are submitted and the types of applications that are funded. These questions appear in the files filed under the court challenges program. However, one of the important criteria for cases to be funded is that they must raise a new question of law.
We know that a plethora of cases since 1982 have gone to the courts and all the way to the Supreme Court under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Some issues are considered to have already been resolved, whether or not they are resolved in the way the communities would like them to be resolved. The choices are made in that context.
As for funding for early childhood and post-secondary education, there are indeed elements that have yet to be determined. Case law has already appeared in certain instances, including the obligation of a province to add a space to set up a child care centre when a new school is built. However, the Supreme Court refused to go that far.
It's important to keep things in perspective. Our job at the official languages rights expert panel is to see whether the applications before the panel raise new legal issues that deserve to be clarified by the courts.