If I may start with that question, as a lawyer with over 30 years of experience, I often find myself looking for ways of raising these questions, of bringing them forward, of trying to get justice for women and for my clients.
It is fairly safe to say that we do not recommend that a major challenge under the Constitution of Canada or the Charte des droits et libertés de la personne du Québec be brought unless there is no other way, because if you can bring a human rights complaint, if you can bring a private law case against an individual, if you can achieve some law reform by lobbying government--if you can do any of those things, it is less difficult than bringing a major case. It is less expensive. These kinds of cases that are funded by the court challenges program are cases of last resort, cases brought when there is no other answer.
When you applied to the court challenges program, one of the questions on the application form was specifically your question: what else have you tried? Unless you could say you had tried everything and thought of everything and nothing else would work, they would not fund you. It's as simple as that.