Mr. Chair, I believe Mr. Alexander has articulated one of the primary policy intents—to provide a search capacity in the event of the rapid-mobilization expansion of the forces.
There is also another rationale, for which one does not have to look to such an exotic or far-off potentiality. We have only four regular force military judges. It's not difficult at all to envisage a case in which there are multiple accused with cut-throat defences in which they make motions for separate trials. It doesn't take long to exhaust the bench of four judges to do that, so this provides us with a very low-cost and flexible mechanism to accommodate the circumstances of having a case in which there are 10 accused, which is not at all impossible to envisage. That is also one of the policy rationales for the provision.