I think the data shows that it will have very little impact, if any. There are very few cases in the Ontario Court of Justice that involve prelims, relatively speaking. While it sounds like we're going to cut out 87% of preliminary inquiries, which sounds impressive, the reality is that there are very few cases and little court time taken up with preliminary inquiries. Preliminary inquiries are relatively short, on the whole. I think Professor Webster noted that they were on average one or two days. They are not what we stereotypically think of as two or three weeks. They're short in duration and don't take up a lot of court time. In my view, eliminating them will have no impact on reaching the Jordan timelines.
On September 18th, 2018. See this statement in context.