It's very interesting that you point out that the preliminary inquiry process will remain available for those who are charged with the peril of a maximum penalty, which is life imprisonment. In that way, we're tacitly endorsing the value of preliminary inquiries. We're saying that a person is only entitled to them if they have committed the most horrendous possible offence. For me, as a criminal defence lawyer, that doesn't make very much sense.
I can tell you that preliminary inquiries are extremely useful when somebody is charged with many different offences and a lot of indictable offences appear on the same information, or when we have multiple parties. I think a lot about my clients who are charged, for instance, with drug trafficking and conspiracy. In those kinds of situations it's very useful, because we actually end up paring down the number of accused people after maybe only one or two days in a preliminary inquiry, and some people are severed. That saves a lot of judicial resources and a lot of court time.
I don't know if Ms. Hassan has anything to add to my comments.