Thank you.
I trust the discretion of the crown, insofar as it has been exercised for literally hundreds of years, to engage in a process that is then reviewed by a judge and to which there is an adversary, the defence bar. I cannot say the same in a situation that has never risen to date, which is the power to engage in a process that reverses everything onto the defence bar. In other words, it's not the discretion of the crown to commence an application that he knows will tax his office, the police, and the court, to prove what they have to prove. If Bill C-27 passes, the discretion will be whether or not to task me, the accused, with all of that.
It's not the same discretion by any means, because one has the price of the effort as a balance, and under Bill C-27 it's whether or not to engage in the process. That latter discretion is much too broad, in my respectful submission.