That's a big topic and I don't want to run out the clock on it. I have spoken about matters of Canadian governance probably 20, 30 or 40 times, and all of those speeches are on my website. For those watching, it's clerk.gc.ca. I've talked a lot about governance in Canada.
I do think it's important that Canadians—the 36 million Canadians—understand that this is a precious thing, and I've said this publicly. When we see what's happening in London, in Washington, in Paris, in Rome, in other democracies, never mind other countries that I will not name that are clearly more authoritarian, we should take comfort that we have independent police and prosecutorial services, that we have courts, that we have officers of Parliament assisting the people who are elected in free and fair elections to guide the country. It's a precious gift and it is under threat around the world. I don't take it for granted in Canada.
There are many ways we could pursue that conversation. The one that's relevant to this committee, and I know that you want to be on the justice committee because you share these concerns about the rule of law in Canada, is the independence of the prosecution service as one of the cornerstones of that.