I think so. I think that conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and fraud are two criminal charges that could well have been laid. The Crown could have taken that option. I didn't really see where the loss would be. You commence with criminal charges, and then at a later date, looking at the complexities that have arisen or enormous amounts of time or disclosure problems or any of those things, you can always have fallback on the indictable offences found in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Use of the Criminal Code should be made when you're dealing with extremely serious environmental crimes such as the one that was presented to the committee in public by Volkswagen's actions.
