I agree with you, Mr. Roebuck. This is more or less what Bill S‑12 does, whereby Crown prosecutors will have to answer the judge's questions and say whether they have taken into consideration what the victims want. If a Crown prosecutor feels that this puts them in an awkward position, they can produce those documents and simply answer the questions.
There's probably a way of articulating something useful. Publication bans are issued to protect victims, but what the victims want isn't taken into account, which strikes me as absurd, and it makes no sense in our criminal system.
The obligation imposed on the Crown prosecutor doesn't place them in a conflict of interest, particularly since, in principle, there is no case to win. The Crown prosecutor is there to establish the truth.
There are about two minutes left, and I would like to hear more about the potential conflict of interest a Crown prosecutor might have in answering victims' questions about the ins and outs of a publication ban.