Justice committee  The problem, I would say, is not so much in the actual drafting of the section. The problem is more in the mentality as to how it's applied. The example you gave before, where sometimes you'll proceed, in my case, in French because it'll go faster, well, I wouldn't use that example.

Justice committee  That's right. Exactly. So if the accused is bilingual, well, tant mieux, you don't have a problem. If he's not, tant pis, but at the end he's happy.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen. Just to clarify one thing, I appear before you this morning purely in my capacity as a criminal defence lawyer, not representing any group or organization. It's interesting when I listen to my colleagues from out west. I thought only Quebec had language problems, but I guess not.