Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have a question, and any of the presenters are invited to answer. I realize my time is limited.
One of the things that have become very clear is that the court challenges program is not expensive. It has an annual pool of about $2.75 million dollars to help individuals who are concerned about violations of language equality rights. Among the recipient groups, as has been mentioned here, are the Chinese Canadians seeking compensation for the head tax. We heard from disabled activists that they also received support in fighting VIA Rail.
Clearly this is not a program that is going to significantly impact budgets. It's a very small part of budgets. The disabled community was able to establish some mobility rights, and the government has already apologized for the Chinese head tax. So when you take all of that into consideration, why on earth would the government cut the court challenges program? What on earth could be the rationale? Why do it?