The crown is responsible for public safety. Ultimately, that's what we see as our job. When I started in mental health court, the direction I got from the crown attorney was, “Here's the drug treatment court; this is the way it works. Don't ever forget that your number one priority is protecting public safety.”
As such, the crown discretion is something that we're just not willing to give up. That's what we see as our job and our responsibility and our role in the system. We use our discretion to decide whether someone is screened in or not, and then from there we go with treatment and judges and the rest.