Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for being here.
Mr. Rice, I am going to start with you.
We were in Toronto last Thursday. Bill Trudell, who is with the Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers, was in front of us telling us about the symposium that had been carried on fairly recently, which was an outflow of the work that Michael Code did specifically on disclosure and other procedural problems in prosecuting mega cases.
We understand recommendations are coming out of that symposium, which I hope the committee will have before we write our report, but the major item on disclosure that they identified was the fact that it had to be dealt with under the present system in the course of the trial. You are going to be recommending that both the Criminal Code and the Canada Evidence Act be amended so that procedure as to what is necessary in disclosure would be determined in pretrial proceedings.
I'm not sure if you are aware of that. If you are, have you any comments?