Mr. Clermont, I want to continue along the lines of your conversation with Mr. Nicholson about charges that are stayed and dropped. I believe about 60% or so are. You touched on it a little, but does the Department of Justice collect data on the reasons for charges being stayed or withdrawn? It seems to me that if this committee is to make a recommendation on how well our justice system functions, we need to know if that kind of data is retained, so that we can understand whether the Criminal Code is working as it should or whether some prosecution strategies are more successful than others and so on.
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