Colleagues, does anyone else have any questions? If not, I have a short one.
By the way, I just wanted to note this for the witnesses. People were suggesting that additional zombie laws should be attacked in this law, and I just want you to understand that it would be unreceivable for us to simply add new provisions that weren't mentioned in the original bill. Much as maybe we would like to include some, we as a committee cannot. I just wanted it to be understood that, if we don't act upon your suggestions, it is because we're not empowered to. They would be unreceivable.
I have a question for Ms. Savard because I got your point about replacing the word “adduce” with “intends to introduce into evidence”. I just want to go back to the premise of the three-pronged different types. You introduce, for example, a document that would certify that a witness was legally blind without wearing glasses. You gave three options.
First, you would learn information from that document and you would ask the question to the witness if he or she was indeed blind. Alternatively, should the witness then fail to answer the question appropriately by not being truthful, you would then perhaps put the document in front of the witness in order to refresh his or her recollection and say, “Does this document assist you in answering that question?” If the witness were still to lie in both of those circumstances, then the eventual intention would be to produce the document because you would be impeaching the credibility of the witness.
I understand the sequential approach, but in any of these cases, there would be an intention, if something happened, to introduce this into evidence. While I appreciate it—and I do think we have to really look very seriously at the approach—I'm not sure that actually works to separate it because in the end result, in all of these, if the witness is going to lie, you're going to introduce the document into evidence, would you not?