Thank you, Mr. Vice-Chair.
Thank you to all the members of the committee for coming here today.
I would especially like to say hi to my old friends, Greg Rice and Harvey Cenaiko. Greg and I practised together early on in our careers, and Mr. Cenaiko and I were MLAs together from 2001 until my premature retirement in 2004. He stayed on until 2008, I think.
It's great to see all of you.
When Mr. Rice and I practised together, we were civil litigators, and I'm intrigued by this issue of disclosure. With respect to the resolution of disclosure efforts civilly, it is handled in a pretrial application, as Mr. Comartin suggested, and that may be the result of this symposium last Thursday in Toronto that we talked about.
I'm intrigued by it, and I agree, Mr. Rice, that we need to fix this. It takes up too much of your resources, it leads to delays in trials, and ultimately, sometimes those trials are stayed as a result. But given what the Supreme Court has said in Stinchcombe case and others, and given what the charter says about making the right to full answer in defence to a charge, can this be modified, in your view, or are we stuck with this?