Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being with us today, Mr. Lomer.
You spoke of a very specific phenomenon. At the bail hearing, the preliminary stage that is, facts matter and the right to bail does not necessarily matter. So you have to argue on the facts of the case. Earlier, you mentioned cities, Toronto, for example, where serious events have recently taken place. Mr. Comartin told us about a police officer who was shot to death when he was visiting a house.
When the evening papers report on something like that, a lawyer knows that bail is going to be difficult to get the next morning, even without dealing with reverse onus. You have enough experience to know that if the biggest paper in Toronto runs articles for two or three days on a particular murder, the judge is going to be very reluctant to grant bail when the lawyer appears with his client, even if he is a good client. Have I understood what you were saying?