No, not at the federal level. I think that in Nova Scotia, it was decided in 1990, following the Marshall case, to set up the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. In Quebec, I don't think that the same problem occurred, but this decision was made all the same. This is a practice one finds just about everywhere throughout the world, for example in England, Australia, Ireland and in all of the States—
On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.