It's not five or 10 minutes. It's not ready. It hasn't been prepared. If that's going to be introduced, then the defence has to challenge it, and you're going to have a trial at the bail hearing. If in five or 10 minutes the crown counsel could be better equipped to put a bail hearing together, then I'm all for that, but we're talking about the case. The police are under such stress in terms of getting disclosure that it's not going to happen in five or 10 minutes. Police officers aren't going to be able to put it together. Their cases are still developing. They have reasonable and probable grounds to charge, but a lot is going to happen between then—preliminary hearing, pretrial, and all the rest of it.
Crown counsel, defence counsel, and the justice of the peace are under great pressure to move the clock and move the yardsticks. I see this as absolutely weighing down a bail hearing. Right now in this country, it is very strained at the bail courts, absolutely strained. Sometimes you wait hours for briefs to show up before a bail hearing takes place. It's putting unnecessary pressure on the police and the crown and it doesn't solve the problem, because at the end of this, and foremost, is the accused's right to bail. That has to be kept in mind here.
I see this, and my counsel colleagues from across the country see this, and we think, “My God, how is that ever going to happen now, with the pressures on the system?”