Again, it operates alongside the jurisdiction that is conferred to the Attorney General of Canada in the legislation. The starting point is concurrent jurisdiction. In many cases, as a matter of practice, prosecution services may be in conversation with one another on which particular service is more appropriately positioned to assume carriage and prosecute a particular case. We understand and expect that this is how things will continue to operate.
The fiat power, as I think was talked about in the first hour, is a tool to enable the Attorney General of Canada and the director of public prosecutions to assume sole responsibility for the prosecution of a financial crime when it has been investigated by the financial crimes agency—an important link—and with regard to some of the factors articulated in terms of the complexity of the investigation, transnationality and whether it crosses multiple jurisdictions.
