I'll try to start with the big picture. We've heard a lot about resources. I think that if we go from every case that may or may not have a reasonable proposition of conviction are all being tried every day.... Forget about the crown attorneys phoning victims and telling them the trial is next week; how about the—I'll just make up a number—600 crown attorneys that will need to be hired, and you should start interviewing today, to try these cases. With the greatest respect to victims, I can't envision a victim I've represented who said that you can have your day in court, and Joe or Jane might be found guilty of 16 counts and get a slightly larger sentence, or we're going to drop 12 charges and we're only going to plead four of them, and we're going to give a bit of a break on sentencing because the truth is that your mom's not a very good witness.
I think you're right. It is a complicated, hopefully somewhat objective process, that takes into.... I referred to baking a cake earlier. My analogy was there are tons of ingredients in a plea bargain. To pump up my profession and yours previously apparently a little bit, I don't think that crown attorneys just walk in in the morning and think “He's getting a plea bargain. He's not. She is. He's not.” I don't think it works that way. I think it's a very complicated process. There is consultation with the police forces. To be fair to victims, it's a subjective, emotionally charged situation, so giving them a veto quite honestly would bring the administration of justice to a grinding halt in my respectful submission.