It's clear that the Court Martial Appeal Court anticipated the matters going ahead. I'll give you the practical example that it created.
Because we have the different powers of punishment that attach to different courts, if an accused is charged with an offence that would attract more than two years less a day as a punishment—let's say, manslaughter that occurs outside of Canada—if the prosecutor were to offer that choice to the accused, the accused could self-limit the punishment that he or she would receive by choosing a standing court martial, which obviously is problematic from the view of broader societal interests and from the view of a victim's concern about process. This then sets you down the road to equalizing a standing court martial with a general court martial in terms of punishment and jurisdiction, which moves us down the road to....
Because we've had some history of accepting representations from accused for courts, one of the things the director of military prosecutions did in the wake of the Nystrom decision was issue a policy that said they would take in representations from accused concerning the type of court they wanted. That happened with the deputy director seven times, and each time the accused was given the type of court they wanted.