Rendering full Jurisdiction name

[Samuel Gagnon]

Hello!

So the problem that I'm having is that in some contexts, I need to render the full jurisdiction name (Canada), but in other contexts, I need to render only the abbreviated version (Can).

As an example, a report from a Royal Commission should render as such :

Canada, Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, <i> Who is Responsible? Fact Finding Report</i> (Ottawa: Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2005) at 33.

However, if I'm citing a court case from a reporter where the name of the reporter does not clearly indicate the court or jurisdiction, that information has to be included, abbreviated, in paratheses at the end (in this example, CA indicates Court of Appeal, but Qc needs to be added at the end to specify Québec):

<i>Air Canada c Joyal<i/>, [1982] CA 39 (Qc)

Right now, the LRR entry for each jurisdiction can include an "abbrev" value. In the case of the main jurisdiction, it be can be rendered using, for example <text value="country form="short"/>. To my knowledge, there is no way to do this for sub jurisdiction's abbrev value, but I may be wrong. (Edit: I was wrong. There is an issue but it is a completely different problem.) Finally, there is also a "name" value, which, again to my knowledge, is solely used in the user interface, and cannot be rendered by a citation style or module.

So my questions are :

1) Is there a way to render the "abbrev" values of sub jurisdictions?
2) Is there a way to render the "name" value assigned in the LRR?
3) If not, is there a way to add this functionality to CSL-M, and how could I help?

@georgd and I had talked about this a while back, so I'm pinging you here in case you have anything to add.