Off the cuff, I would agree with that. The crown has the obligation of deciding how to proceed. The judges don't get involved in this, except that sometimes we might make a comment--i.e., “Why are you proceeding in this matter? Why don't you sever the charges?” You know, we can ask those questions, but still the crown has the final decision as to how to proceed.
In these mega-trials, one of the biggest problems is that you may have nine or ten lawyers, all of whom have different ideas as to how to defend this particular case. The frustration that results is that it never gets off the blocks. What they're doing is trying to be expeditious, to bring it down to three or four, and therefore the applications that are made are probably going to be general, as they relate to those three or four individuals. There's no shotgun approach to this. That being the case, they can get the case heard; the case can finally be disposed of.
When it comes to thirty or forty people, you see no end. You just never see the light at the end of the tunnel.