Mr. Speaker, my question is for my colleague from Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, who said that the act needs to be given “more teeth” in order for the government to ensure that the official languages are respected.
In my riding, it is true that the case involving Le Forum des maires de la Péninsule acadienne and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency was before the courts. It is also true that the Forum des maires won in Federal Court and that the Food Inspection Agency, i.e. the federal government, is continuing to appeal to the Supreme Court in the hope that the Forum des maires will lose its case. If the federal government just kept quiet when we win a case in court, maybe minorities could make some progress.
I can see that the law needs “more teeth” and agree with Bill S-3. But why does the government appeal every time that the communities win cases in the courts? It is the federal government, the Liberal government, that is not doing its job and does not respect minorities in Canada.