Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Every day, crime prosecutors across this country examine the evidence in the cases before them where charges are laid by police officers. It's the duty of the police officer to lay a charge where he or she thinks an offence might have occurred, and it's the duty of the prosecutor to decide whether there's a reasonable chance of conviction.
In this case, they did that job. We don't know what the reasons were, and we shouldn't know what the reasons were. If the crown of this country has determined that there is no sufficient evidence to support the charge, there is no charge and that person is presumed to be innocent, and we should not derogate from that.
For those reasons, I don't believe this committee should adopt this motion.