At least we are suggesting now that we have an independent--and you're confirming that--organization, the Department of Justice, which can in fact supervise, and if you say they don't have the time, I'm willing to debate that. The Department of Justice does regular work in many areas of the law in terms of providing good independent advice, and always has. I always provided that independent advice to my ministers, whether they were New Democrat or Conservative in Manitoba, and that is a tradition inside the Department of Justice.
We're also, for example, moving to strengthen that independence through the creation of the Director of Public Prosecutions. I'm not concerned that there isn't an independent aspect and ability to not only provide evidence, but then to obtain appropriate individuals to provide us that independence.
The most glaring example I can point to that is the example of a hearing involving Mr. Justice Rothstein, where the Department of Justice paid for independent advisers to advise Justice Rothstein in any respect he wanted. Certainly no one would suggest that because they were hired by the Department of Justice to assist a potential Supreme Court of Canada judge, who was a Federal Court of Appeal judge, somehow these very eminent individuals were lacking in independence. The law societies wouldn't agree with you, the bar associations wouldn't agree with you, and quite frankly, the statement you're making is simply not justified.