Thank you. It's a great question, Mr. Fortin.
Remember this is temporary. The charter provision for the override is five years maximum. It will expire if a future Parliament doesn't re-enact it, and Jordan would be the law again. It has its limitations.
I'm talking about a timeout in this conversation. This 30-month ceiling, which is leading to the monopoly of criminal cases by judges of general jurisdiction, the ignoring of many other cases, and the loss of legitimate prosecutions just because they fall outside this timeline, is not tolerable in the crisis of COVID-19 delays to the justice system.
The people of this country, through their elected representatives, I submit, ought to be able, through the charter, to be part of the conversation and say they're not going to have any time limit right now.
You're right, in the long run there should be time limits. In a perfect world there should be. Their right is not there to be ignored; it's just to be paused until we get through this terrible crisis in the courts.