Can I circle back to complexity and then address the comparative child soldier issue?
Just on complexity, if your standard of complexity is that the prosecution in Canada would be complex because of all these variables my team has been describing versus what goes on in a military commission, the answer is yes, of course, because the military commission has pared away complexity by ignoring the child soldier issue and by allowing the admissibility of evidence obtained through cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Yes, it would be more complex, because we are adhering to the rule of law, both domestic and international.
On the issue of child soldiers and the comparative gravity of being a child soldier, and is Omar Khadr a unique case, the implication being that perhaps Omar Khadr deserves a different treatment, my answer is no, in the sense that from a legal perspective a child soldier is a child soldier is a child soldier. Obviously the circumstances in Sierra Leone and other places, like Uganda, are horrific. The circumstances in which Omar Khadr found himself were horrific, albeit in a different way.
The idea of variability in terms of culpability is captured in our law, in the sense of sentencing under the youth justice system. You can be sentenced as an adult, or you can be sentenced as a youth. So there is room for a court to contemplate varying levels of culpability and to take into account the difference. That is the point we're trying to make. And that compounds the complexity, but again, with complexity comes nuance.