Sure. There are provincial and federal ministers, I know, who are looking at the issue. It's a jurisdictional, territorial issue.
A warrant is a warrant anywhere in Canada. So if you're wanted on a criminal matter, in theory you can be arrested.
Say you commit a crime in Vancouver and you're hiding out in Ottawa and they find you here. I send officers to Ottawa and you are detained. They take a copy of the original warrant, it's backed by a justice, and you're on the plane and you are escorted back.
The reluctance is on the part of many governments to pay for the escort costs. That's all it is. So if you're wanted on causing a disturbance—not you, but if there was a bar fight or something and there were warrants issued for you, would it be cost-prohibitive for us to return you to Vancouver to appear on that? Well, as soon as we say that, the whole administration of justice is called into disrepute, because you're never held accountable. So we've proposed “con air”; we've proposed going by train. At the RCMP, we even looked at regular scheduled runs of aircraft across Canada. Then we thought, with the video hookup programs, there has to be a way that, if you're arrested in Winnipeg, you don't get a choice; you appear in court on video and witnesses can come before you. It's really hard to get traction for this issue.
I have reports I could share with you. We did research the first three months of 2005. Then, in March 2006, I think there were four large urban police departments and we did research to see just the volume and how bad the problem is. It's absolutely staggering.