Thank you.
I want to get into the role of the players, I guess, in the system. I don't want to sound like the Law and Order introduction, but there are the police, there are the prosecutors, there are the judges and the defence lawyers. They all have a role, and I hope we all admit that.
But you know what? I've heard for some three years now what I think is a more or less unintended attack--I won't say it's an intended attack--on judicial discretion. And I want to key in on the civil liberties aspect of this.
Yesterday I listened to Borovoy on the CBC--that's the public broadcaster that you guys cut money to--and it was a wonderful interview. How fair he was on all subjects. He didn't come off as a raving lefty or righty or whatever.
Mr. Norton, you haven't had the hard questions today yet. I feel bad about doing this to an expectant father, but I still have to ask this.
Since when does the Civil Liberties Association feel that judicial discretion is a good thing? In the old days, it gave us things like the Spanish Inquisition. Why wouldn't the association want a set of laws that was in the window, where everybody got the same, I guess like the mandatory minimum?
It's a bit of a philosophical question, but....