I can touch on that.
I don't necessarily think JJPs or whoever is conducting that hearing has to have a legal background.
For example, all police officers have a considered equivalent training across Canada, whether it's in use of force, knowledge of the law, provincial or federal statutes and all of those great things. Why doesn't our provincial justice system have a consistent standard in the enforcement of bail, the decisions on bail hearings or how they present a bail hearing? Nova Scotia is different from Ontario, which is different from British Columbia, which is different from Alberta, which is different from Nunavut.
For some cases, our members are the Crown. That has been left to them. I was in Whatì, Northwest Territories, a little while ago. We are the only representative of the government in that particular small town. That training should be available to them to meet that standard, but that standard doesn't exist across Canada. Hence, every province does it differently.
I don't know about legal training, but a consistent level would be appreciated.
