The amendments are not intended to be a temporary measure, I guess is the way to put it.
And of course, what we're confronted with is that the Court Martial Appeal Court in Trépanier clearly said that the constitutional provisions were of no force and effect.
From a policy perspective, clearly it was not the preferred choice in 2003 in terms of the options that were available. However, we have before us the 2003 Lamer report. We have the clear indication from the Trépanier decision itself—first from Nystrom and now from Trépanier—in terms of a preference there.
We've also had more contemporary experience with panel courts, and I think this is one of the things to set out and to clarify for the record. The Trépanier decision indicates that there haven't been any panel courts, and it was relying on the information from the Lamer report. But indeed there have been. In 2006 and 2007, 9% of all our courts martial were panel courts. And last year, 20% of all our courts martial were, in effect, jury-type trials.
I have attempted to determine a similar statistic from the civilian justice system. The closest I can get is that it is somewhere around 2%, but the statistics are hard to determine. I think I'm on safe ground to say that it's significantly less than 20% of the proceedings.