Certes, les questions soulevées sont complexes et vont au coeur de notre vie nationale; on pense à l'application de la Charte, à la répartition des compétences dans notre pays, des pouvoirs au sein de notre système fédéral, à l'incidence de la citoyenneté, au respect des droits corrélatifs et des attentes réciproques des citoyens, et aux difficiles questions de répartition des ressources.
The issues to be sure are complex. They involve questions that strike to the heart of this country: issues pertaining to the application of the charter; the distribution of governmental jurisdiction within our country, within our federal system; the incidence of citizenship; the correlative rights and expectations which we demand of one another as fellow citizens; and also those difficult issues that deal with the distribution of resources.