I co-chair something called the heads of prosecutions committee. It's a committee that brings together the heads of every prosecution service in Canada—provincial, ours, and the military's.
We get together and discuss issues of common interest. We have very frank exchanges on issues that are particular to our services and that impact things like recruitment and retention. While the information is in camera, I know where there may be some issues with recruitment and retention in Canada, because we're very open with each other, and that does allow us, I think, to have an exchange on things that have worked. At our last meeting, which was in April or May of this year, we actually spent most of an afternoon on Jordan, because we think that's the sort of thing about which exchanging best practices is vitally important to us.
At every meeting there are exchanges and updates about what's going on in each prosecution service, but also there are usually two or three sessions on best practices. We also will have discussions on occasion on evidentiary issues of common interest and the development of jurisprudence. The meeting is essentially in camera because we want to make sure there is full and frank exchange. I think every member of that committee would tell you that they come back from every meeting with good ideas.
The other benefit to it, if I'm being honest, is that all of us in our prosecution services will at times have cases that we can't take, usually because of a conflict. For example, the brother of one of our lawyers is charged, and by having those contacts you're able to easily pick up the phone and ask for help from the provincial prosecution service. So it has some side benefits. It's just basically relationship building in the most basic sense.