As you know, I'm a former Crown attorney. One of the biggest problems I had was talking to my counterparts across Canada and seeing major differences in terms of the priority and the process by which offences that should have not only local but also national importance, particularly in the context of this committee, protecting women at risk.... There are often either police services that just simply don't have an interest in charging under section 811 or prosecutors who do not want to spend the time to continue a prosecution.
Do you think, as a general rule, that there would be some merit in establishing national standards for the way Crown prosecutors right across this country deal with IPV offences generally—specifically as relates to terminology in section 810 orders and enforcement—and for how they proceed, depending on the facts scenario with the prosecution? Do you see merit, and will you commit today to making that a priority when you have your next general meeting?