Official Languages committee  The case is already before the courts. Is that correct? So I'm going to avoid commenting on it.

Official Languages committee  I'll be brief. Before proceedings were even instituted, the Association des juristes d'expression française de la Colombie-Britannique expressed its support for the Court Challenges Program.

Official Languages committee  I'm aware of the actions taken in that regard. These kinds of decisions are taken more at the national level. Our association is a member of the Fédération des associations de juristes d'expression française de common law. These decisions are made at that level.

Official Languages committee  What you have before you, Mr. Murphy, is a summary. In the full report, which is available on the Internet, and a copy of which was also sent to the Department of Justice, obvious solutions are proposed at the provincial level. We also ask the provincial government to take steps,

Official Languages committee  Exactly, it's a question that the report created, saying that it was a question that could be put to Canadian taxpayers when they complete their tax returns.

Official Languages committee  There would have to be an amendment because, thus far, this question doesn't appear in any of these acts.

Official Languages committee  I'd simply like to close by saying that, considering the way it's drafted, it doesn't necessarily address the Francophone minorities; it addresses everyone, the Anglophone minorities as well. There are regions in Quebec, for example, that could benefit from this. Thank you.

Official Languages committee  It's not mission impossible. It's just that it causes difficulties in some cases in British Columbia. One of those difficulties, for example, is that we can't locate the bilingual population and Francophone population. We know where these people are, but we can't identify them in

Official Languages committee  ...that person will have to be tried here. So that's inconvenient for the accused and witnesses, who generally live where the offence is presumed to have been committed. That's one difficulty, and we discuss it in our report.

Official Languages committee  I'm the Chairman of the Association des juristes d'expression française de la Colombie-Britannique. The purpose of the association, which has been in existence for a little more than five years, is to facilitate and promote access to justice in French in British Columbia. Apart