The second area I want to get into, with the time that I have remaining, is the overall impression that Canadians and victims groups, particularly women's groups.... I've engaged in a number of town hall meetings and have explained to them, as a former prosecutor, that these are rare defences that are being used in courts across this country, but it was really of small comfort to a number of these individuals because, in their view, one case is too many.
Quite frankly, despite that, they still had this overriding belief that alcohol alone could be deemed to be ultimately successful, despite my best efforts to reassure them that the Supreme Court of Canada has made it abundantly clear in this decision that alcohol alone would not be successful.
I have done some research and I've concluded that between the passage of the original section 33.1 and the Daviault case, there have been successful cases, across this country, where alcohol alone was the sole intoxicant.
Do you feel—I'd like to get some commentary from the two of you—that Parliament missed an opportunity to codify that alcohol alone could be a bar to the advancement of this defence?