Justice committee  I take your points about the preliminary inquiries. I have two questions. You mentioned that preliminary inquiries serve an educative discovery-like aspect, particularly for unrepresented accused, etc., but what about the traumatic impacts that preliminary inquiries can have, particularly in sexual offence cases?

Justice committee  Thank you. Would you say that your comments and concerns about the overrepresentation of indigenous persons equally apply to the experience of black Canadians and South Asian Canadians?

Justice committee  Okay. I'm not sure whether you followed it, Professor Roach, but yesterday we had Jonathan Rudin here from Aboriginal Legal Services, and he talked about something that was intellectually curious to me. It was about the efforts we're making to address intimate partner violence and the reverse onus provisions on bail.

Justice committee  Thank you for being here, Professor Roach and Mr. Kettles. Welcome. I feel that both aspects of my legal career are represented on this panel: my life at MAG and my life at U of T. With respect to what Mr. Blaney was questioning you about, I'll put it to you simply. Do we have a problem with the overrepresentation of Irish men in the criminal justice system or in corrections?