Neither of us would profess to be experts in this particular area of the criminal law, but I think there's a certain reality. I've heard our colleagues here talk about judicial discretion. We've alluded to what prosecutors may or may not do. This is a theme you're going to hear our association talk about a little bit more over coming days, and that is the capacity of the rest of the justice system, our partners in the justice system, to deal with some of these legislative changes and the downstream consequences of them. We recognize that. I've heard my colleague from the John Howard Society talk about that, the incarceration rates.
We're also concerned about our colleagues in the prosecutorial services and their ability to handle the workload, much like we have a challenge. You're going to hear us speak up about that a little bit. If we want to deal with some of these problems in a holistic way, a comprehensive way, then we need to deal with our capacity challenges a little bit.
The reality of that, of course, is that when they're faced with capacity challenges, their first priority, obviously, is to make decisions in the public interest, but the fact is you only have so many resources, you have to make decisions, and where there are areas that are discretionary and challenging, I would say, from the association's point of view, we would have a concern that the purposes of the bill may be frustrated by the realities.