The Court Challenges Program, under which people who claim to have a legitimate grievance against the operation of laws may be publicly subsidized to challenge the wording or implementation of those laws, is on its face an enlightened measure and a commendable recognition by the Canadian federal government that it and other governments in Canada could have inadvertently failed to see damage that could potentially result from ostensibly well-intended legislation and regulation. In principle, any admission by government of its potential fallibility is a good thing that would seem to moderate what Shakespeare called ”the insolence of office:” the blank authoritarian inhumanity with which governments frequently dictate people’s conduct and exact taxes and submission from them. Unfortunately, the appearance of a becoming humility helping to shape government conduct can be deceiving and in this case everything depends on the causes that the Court Challenges Program actually supports.