I am pleased to be fulfilling my role as minister in appointing substantive candidates for judicial appointments to our superior courts. You indicated that the Jordan decision is not new. I will say that delays are not new. They've been around for a long time. There is no one answer to solving delays in the criminal justice system.
This is why I've been working very collaboratively with my partners in the provinces and territories, who have responsibility for the administration of justice in 99% of the criminal cases in provincial courts. This is why we are taking a substantive, collaborative approach to do as the Supreme Court of Canada directed us to do, which is to have a culture shift in the justice system, and a culture shift requires a rethinking of all the actors within it. We are going to collectively look at mandatory minimum penalties, which lead to delays. We're going to be looking at preliminary inquiries, bail, and the administration of justice so as to ensure that we do everything we can to reduce the delays. It is simply not true to think that just by appointing judges, which I am committed to doing on an expedited basis, we are going to solve the delays in the criminal justice system. For 10 years, the previous government did not address these delays, which have been around for a lot longer than that.