The issue focused on the publication in January of the name of a pilot project that would have removed gender-based discrimination and discrimination based on sexual orientation from the Criminal Code, which had been in the works for three decades. The Justice Department questioned whether there should have been any such pilot project and asked whether the idea was sufficient in the context of the broader federal policy on fundamental rights. The chief justice did not directly address the department's point, but said she would review it as she read the results of the project and