That certainly was the case of Judge Lamer. I handled a trial with jury before him that lasted less than half a day, including deliberations. However, it was a very clear case. It is surprising that this idea, put forward more than 20 years ago — when I was a young lawyer —, has never been put into practice. Is it because if one writes in French, one is less read than if one writes in English? In any event, you are not aware of cases that proceeded in this way.
Often, when I think of the evolution of criminal law since the Stinchcombe case and since the Charter, I seriously ask myself what would happen if we were charged with helping an emerging country build a criminal law system. I wonder if there would be many countries with the means to afford this type of complex process that we have developed over the last 20 years. We talked earlier of the fact that Haiti wanted to set up a system. Would we be successful in selling these disclosure of evidence procedures, these processes and these motions that precede them to countries that are not as rich as ours?