Thank you very much, gentlemen.
My first question will be to the police officers, and then I will switch it over to Mr. Bartlett.
It has been said to this committee, and you're telling this committee, that currently when you have organized crime and organized criminals before the courts, there is too long a time spent on trying to prove that it was a criminal organization. I think in your testimony you said it has taken from up to two weeks to a month. Is that correct?
Can you give me two or three principal arguments that are used by defence lawyers to try to dissuade the court from recognizing that organization as an organized criminal group? Are there three main arguments that are usually used? Usually there's a commonality there, I would think.