Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, witnesses.
I want to ask about disclosure first, Monsieur Lacasse and Monsieur Poulin. We hear that out there in the legal community, there is some work going on of a collaborative nature between the defence bar, the Canadian Bar Association, the prosecutors' association, and so on to, if not codify this, at least come up with protocols for best practices with respect to complying with disclosure requirements under Stinchcombe.
First of all, my question is whether that is taking place. As has been said by a number of people here, it would probably also be in the defence counsel's interest to have an idea of what the protocol is or what the nature and breadth of disclosure and timeliness for disclosure should be. You want to avoid arriving at trial and hearing, “Oh, I didn't know you had that,” and having a whole trial adjourn forever because of some pyrrhic document search.
Has that been happening, to your knowledge, among other associations?
Second, and perhaps more germane to our work here, do you see any way we can codify this and somehow take the elements of Stinchcombe and put them into some form of a law, in the broadest of bases, that would help?