We are on slide 7. If we look at only those cases where we had a Bill C-35 charge as the most serious offence, we saw that the overall conviction rate was 31%. According to our courts data, we found that 84% of these convicted cases, where the Bill C-35 charge was the most serious offence, had a guilty plea. This was lower than the overall 90% of guilty pleas for convicted cases.
On April 25th, 2007. See this statement in context.