Mr. Lewis, it really depends on who's initiating the offence in the first place. If it's the province that's enacting some sort of bylaw infraction, that's going to end up in the provincial system. If it's some sort of piece of federal legislation that's being violated, that's going to be part of essentially the criminal system, in the same way that drug offences or other offences are prosecuted. Either way, it's the same judges that are likely going to deal with these problems. We have to be prepared for it. We have to acknowledge that these issues may come through.
Again, I don't think the solution is simply, as some panellists have suggested, to suspend someone's constitutional rights indefinitely to accommodate for the ability to prosecute some of these fines. I think the answer is to look at what else we can do to relieve the burden off the justice system. We know that it will be a tragic situation if a victim of a crime has to wait years and years and years for a case to make its way through the justice system, and likewise for an accused person who is facing strict bail restrictions or is in custody. We can't have situation where we just allow those cases to go on indefinitely. We have to find other solutions.