Feds Should Not Fund Groups to Take Provinces to Court Under Existing Program, Professor Tells MPs

A view of Centre Block, the main building on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

A Calgary political science professor is criticizing a federal government program that funds constitutionality challenges for minorities, saying he has difficulty explaining to people from other countries why Canada would fund challenges to its own legislation.

University of Calgary political science professor Ian Brodie testified before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on May 2 on the topic of the Court Challenges Program, which funds those seeking to challenge legislation using the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.