Following upon Mr. Rathgeber's point about interlocutory measures, let me follow up with pretrial measures.
As you know, on the civil side of things there's usually a pretrial conference judge who is not to hear the actual hearing so he can deliver an unbiased view of it; also, his decision is just for the motion itself. Would you recommend more of those types of procedures?
Secondly, it's the overall role of the prosecutor, the defence attorney, maybe the judge, and the police in a criminal process.... There was some discussion this morning, and there's been some discussion for years, about how these are all the players.
Now, I can tell you that our experience, in the four years I've been here, is that we very rarely hear from prosecutors. Point number one is that they work for government, so they're a little reticent; two, they don't make the money, probably, that defence attorneys do, so they can't really afford to fly off to Ottawa and gab; three, maybe they are busy. And I think there is an overall reticence to speak out about the process. So we don't hear that.
We never hear, as I mentioned, from judges—twice in four years. The last one passed away about a year or two after, so be careful driving home today.