So in some jurisdictions it will be with the advice of a crown prosecutor, and in other jurisdictions you may have police officers making that decision about whether to go by way of summary conviction or by way of indictment. If we were to leave this bill the way it is, we would have those—I would use the word “arbitrary”, but I don't want to call judgments by police officers arbitrary, because they're trying to make the best judgment they can.... But from the point of view of the justice system, without any guide to the police officer making that decision, it might be labelled in some contexts as arbitrary vis-à-vis the procedure.
Would you accept my suggestion then that those decisions could be viewed as arbitrary and would exclude some offenders from conditional sentencing, based on the current government bill?