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Justice committee  I just wanted to add that it's the same thing for the language rights program. As far as we know there's nothing like the language rights support program on the language side anywhere in the world that's funded by the government to litigate against the government.

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  Out of the completed files, whether successful or not, the number is 18. Instead of looking at it the way that only 10 out of the 18 went to trial, maybe look at it the other way. That is, out of the 18, only four were successful because only with four of those was there actually

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  No, the purpose of ADR is to resolve the problem, and to clarify and advance the constitutional language rights. It's not for people to just give up.

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  The ADR process is not necessarily to avoid trial. I'll give you a concrete example. There's a group of parents whose school is next to a toxic dump, so the environmental situation for the kids is not safe. They want the toxic dump to be cleaned up or they want a new school. They

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  No, this is actually a case.

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  Well, those are statistics. There are 18 cases that finished; 10 that went to trial; and four that were resolved. So why do you think that the five cases didn't go to trial? They didn't resolve the problem, so the problem is still there. I'm assuming they didn't want to go to tri

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  No. What I'd say is that in regard to the funding, the information is available through our annual report in the sense of how much was funded for litigation, the number of—

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau

Justice committee  No. We publish in our annual report the ones that we are able to publish, and I welcome you go to on our website and see that. There has been talk about, if the program were to continue, the possibility of telling applicants that if they want funding from us, they need to let u

April 12th, 2016Committee meeting

Geneviève Boudreau