PPSC and DFO have an ongoing dialogue during both the investigative stage and the prosecution stage. In other words, DFO has independent discretion with respect to how and what they are going to investigate. We provide investigatory assistance during the investigative stage. Certainly, what the evidence sustains—the appropriate charge—is part of the ongoing dialogue.
Ultimately, whether or not to move forward with charges is PPSC's independent discretion based on, as you just referenced, our two-pronged test, but we have an ongoing and engaged dialogue with our enforcement partners and with ECCC.
