As it stands, because of a decision from the Supreme Court of Canada called Mills, provincial court judges sitting as preliminary inquiry judges do not have the same jurisdiction they would have if they were trial judges. You have the same individual, with the same level of experience and education, but because it's a preliminary inquiry rather than a trial, they can't do many of the things, or almost all of the things, they could do if they were trial judges. They can't make orders for disclosure and they can't rule on third party record applications or make rulings in respect of prior sexual history applications.
If we could broaden the jurisdiction of the provincial court judge at a preliminary inquiry, we could take many of these applications in the preliminary inquiry. They are simply being delayed and can only be heard at the Supreme Court trial. It would make the preliminary inquiries much better at gathering the information and resolving many of the questions so that the trial doesn't have to duplicate some of that.