I think that, first of all, I will refer to Alberta and what Alberta has done. My understanding is that they've implemented a pilot project, so that you have dedicated crowns who run the bail hearings. They are run between certain hours of the day and it's a lengthy time period, something like 12, 14, or 16 hours of a day.
All that crown counsel does is consider the release of accused persons. Sometimes they release and sometimes they oppose release, in which case there's a bail hearing.
It really cuts down when you have a dedicated justice of the peace or you have a dedicated judge and then you have dedicated crowns to run bail hearings like that. That really gets rid of backlogs.
Perhaps I can address what you said about the number of people who oppose Bill S-217. It's a classic fallacy, and no disrespect in using that word. I just mean it in the sense of logic, to say that there is a lot of people who oppose something and therefore they must be correct.
I pointed out in my brief—and I urge you to go through it—that some of the people have misstated some material aspects of the legislation, and they're not small misstatements. I'm sure they're inadvertent, but yet they're there. Just because lots of people say one thing doesn't mean they're correct.