I feel some obligation here that I can't breach confidentiality about things I talk to my lawyer about and the advice they give me. However, I have on a number of occasions, when they have given me an opinion, gone back to them and said I was not sure I was satisfied with their opinion and that they should do some more work on it. Or, I've taken that opinion -- as I've said -- and sat down with the deputy Minister and have said, from my point of view, and with my legal advice up to this point with the work we've done, this is how I see the interpretation of the act.
Sometimes the deputy minister has come back to me and said, we don't see it that way. This is the way we understand it. Then, I'll go back with that to my legal counsel and we'll look further into it. They may raise some other issues and we'll research those again. So, there's this play back and forth. But, I have, a number of times gone back to my legal counsel and said this is a preliminary opinion, now go further into this and look at this angle or this angle. I might say this department raised this point of view, based on their legal advice, let us consider that. There is dialogue back and forth between myself and my legal counsel and the deputy ministers and their legal counsel constantly. We trade opinions and determine that if we look at it one way, it comes out with this conclusion and if we look at it another way, it comes out with another conclusion.
In doing that, we learn from their advice and they learn from our advice and the end result is that we can, hopefully, come to some reasonable solution. There is one matter that is pending -- as I said -- where I feel, from my legal advice, that there is a breach of an act dealing with official languages. I have gone back to the Department of Justice a number of times with this. It has been going on for about a year and a half, back and forth. The last advice they gave was they think there may be an error in the act, so I'm going back to them again saying, if there's an error in the act, what are you going to do about it? There's that give and take all the time. So, as far as challenging the opinions that I'm receiving in my office, I think we do that constantly.
I don't simply say, this is the advice of my legal counsel and your legal counsel says differently and I'm going to take you to court to see who's right. That's not what we're trying to do. But, I have, as I said, gone back to my own legal counsel a number of times and said that I think there is more to look at in particular instances. I have said to look at it from other angles, consider the GNWT point of view and we're doing that all the time, back and forth.