I'll take your first question.
To clarify for the committee, what I was suggesting earlier was not that we don't have any statistics on preliminary inquiries at all, but that the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics does not track time—the hours that a preliminary inquiry or in fact any of the criminal procedures throughout the process would take.
There are a few statistics available to us. As I mentioned earlier, there are two issues of Juristat, one dated February 2018 and one dated June 2017, containing summaries of statistics based on different years.
For example, the February 2018 summary was an analysis of 2015-16 data relying on charges in provincial court and allowing for some information from superior court. Unfortunately, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics does not receive data from all superior courts, so there are limitations there. The committee might have interest in bringing in a member from Statistics Canada.
We also have JustFacts, a Department of Justice publication done by our research and statistics division. Again, it does not relate to the time in court that any process, such as the preliminary inquiry, takes, but it does refer to the number of cases, the number of charges, as well as how many preliminary inquiries have taken place in a given year.