Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my hon. colleague concerning the court challenges program.
The member from the Liberal Party asked why we cancelled a program costing $2.7 million annually to run.
I think there is an argument to be made that after almost three decades of jurisprudence in this area the program had helped build a foundation of case law to support not only minority language rights, official language rights, but also other rights as protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Does my colleague agree that this program had been in place for almost three decades, had substantially built this foundation in case law, and therefore was no longer needed as it was back in the 1970s when it was originally introduced?