Thank you very much.
My questions will be mostly for Mr. Downes.
I'm not a lawyer, and I'll try not to play a Philadelphia lawyer with you, but because I only have a few minutes, I need short and succinct comments or answers from you.
As far as you saying the principles of justice.... You went on to say that it really doesn't mean much, that it's more business. And that was questioned. Some of us might think it would be a Freudian slip, but I think you answered that question.
One of the other questions that keeps coming up is about your clients and the tremendous burden some of these things would be on potential clients, that they would be concerned about having an impaired driving charge or a criminal charge, which was brought up by my NDP friend. Then you mentioned challenges.
But when we're dealing with impaired driving, we're talking about the victims of impaired driving, and they don't have a court of appeal because they're dead and they don't have challenges before the Supreme Court because they're dead. The whole idea behind looking at this impaired driving has more to do with the victims rather than the people committing the offence. That's why the public, not the people who are charged and convicted but the average citizens out there, the people who elect us to come here, want us to keep looking at this issue. They drive the political agenda.
I wonder if you could comment on the fact that, yes, it's serious to have criminal offences against you, but at the same time the whole idea is to protect the public from a crime that might occur and that usually causes grave consequences.