I think there's a distinction to be made between the interests served by promoting unit discipline and the interests served by protecting against offences at the level of the community of Canada at large in the way criminal law is intended to protect. In our view, summary trials are appropriate to the first aspect, and criminal law procedures and processes and consequences are appropriate to the second function. It should be up to the charging officer at first instance to decide which path to take. Then, if a summary trial is chosen by the charging officer, there might be a residual election for some offences for the summary trial processes. It ought to be up to the charging officer to decide whether it's a matter of sufficient importance to elevate the process to a criminal law type of process.
On February 28th, 2011. See this statement in context.