Scrapping the Court Challenges Program panned

As reported earlier in the media, the official languages commissioner has panned the government for scrapping the court challenges program. I all along argued that even if the program was being misused to promote a certain political agenda, scrapping it outright could hurt many who did legitimately have their rights violated from being able to defend them and it appears I have been vindicated. The common accusation from many on the right is it was made up of left wing special interest groups and would only fund challenges that promoted their ideology. Whether this was true or not, this could easily be corrected by having those on the board be lawyers and retired judges who would look at each case on the likelihood that a Charter violation took place and also the means of the person or group wishing to launch the challenge. Instead the Tories decided to scrap the program outright rather than fix an alleged problem, which would have been the proper solution. This leads me to my concern that the Tories are either indifferent or hostile to both language rights and equality rights. Many members in the party and even Harper himself have made such comments in the past, which is why I have cause for concern. I hope I am wrong here, but the government sure isn't giving me much confidence. I think now is the time to re-instate the program and if they wish to include other rights such as free speech and freedom of religion under it, then fine, but don't prevent people with limited means from not being able to defend themselves against violations on equality and linguistic rights. In 1992 when first scrapped by the Mulroney government, there may have been some justification since we faced a $45 billion deficit which required taking some extreme measures that we wouldn't normally need to take, but today we have a healthy surplus so such measures are not needed. I am all for cutting the size of government, but cut programs that don't work, not because they don't suit one's ideology.