I think my colleague was certainly putting a great deal of emphasis on the issue of the Attorney General at the federal level in Canada being a member of cabinet, whereas in the U.K. this is not the case.
That certainly is a puzzle because, as I think both Professor Edwards and Professor Stenning have noted, it's not really clear why, if the arrangement whereby the Attorney General is kept outside of cabinet is the appropriate thing to do in the U.K. itself, that wouldn't have been exported to other countries in the Commonwealth complex. Again, I think it is an issue that could well benefit from some serious consideration. I note that my other colleague, Adam Dodek, dean of the University of Ottawa law school, had a column in one of the newspapers this weekend that in part addressed this issue as well.
As I said in my opening remarks, the reason for having a DPP is to insulate the prosecutorial decision-making from overtly political considerations. That is another way to address the issue of how you render the assessment of the public interest somewhat more non-partisan.