Absolutely. It does create really illogical situations. For example, somebody who does an attempted break-and-enter is not entitled to a preliminary inquiry, but somebody who completes the break-and-enter is. Somebody charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm, which can carry extremely high and punitive sentences of incarceration, would not be entitled to a preliminary inquiry, but somebody who engages in impaired driving causing death would be. It's just very bizarre to me to see this kind of discrepancy. I don't think there's any evidentiary basis for doing so. There's no logical basis either, in my view.
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