For this type of concept, as officials who have been talking to different parts of Justice since Tuesday, we are still grappling with all of the scope of its applications, given how unprecedented it is in administrative law. There are different parts and pieces of it that we're finding out are new problems, and it's going to take weeks for us to unpack it all.
With regard to the judicial authorization of a cabinet decision, we're going to need to come up with a new process for cabinet confidence. We can't bring cabinet confidence to court.
We're not sure, but it likely does not match the crosswalk to the confidential evidentiary provisions of the Canada Evidence Act, so we're not sure if we could use confidential evidence with the court.
On your question, though, in terms of a specific time, our best guess at this point is that for something that was truly urgent, we couldn't accomplish it in a matter of days under Bill C-8 as tabled. It is probably going to be months, and what would be months would likely be years.
