Thank you, Mr. Mendicino.
I'll take a stab at that. Julie will correct me if I get any aspects of the steps wrong.
Effectively, the role of the commission is to replace many, if not most, of the functions that I currently perform as Minister of Justice. What I would say to that is where I, the Attorney General of Canada, am the prosecuting attorney in a given piece of litigation, what happens is pursuant to the statute if a John Doe is making an application and a determination about admissibility is being made, I'm alerted to that fact.
It comes across my desk that John Doe has made an application. If they clear the admissibility criteria and get to an investigation stage, as the AG of jurisdiction I'm able to provide submissions about how the prosecution was handled to inform the commission's investigative function. After that point, I believe I have no further role, because the commission makes a determination based on that investigation on whether the test has been met...if there may have been a miscarriage of justice, and it's in the public interest to pursue either a new appeal or trial de novo. They make that decision independently of me entirely.