I would just say, as a matter of public policy, that we're spending a lot of money in the federal government in the last while by losing cases on the charter. I can think of many examples: mandatory minimum sentences, the Insite case, and so forth. To think that the check is working seems to me to be wildly counterintuitive.
I would suggest that one of the things this committee ought to do is examine whether a better standard would allow fewer cases to get through the sieve than get through now, because it's certainly costing Canadians a lot of money to lose these cases.
Those are my comments.