Justice committee  I'm no expert on how these criminal organizations are organized and what subsidiaries there may be and how they could be designated as criminal organizations, although everybody recognizes that the Hells Angels, for example, are involved in criminal activity.

Justice committee  You can have a commission to which references are made to determine whether or not this organization is to be designated a criminal organization as such, without further proof thereof in criminal hearings. The problem is that these organizations change along the line. Sometimes

Justice committee  So things do change, and that's the difficulty. We have to be very careful about trying to just be expeditious, but I think we can do something in the evidentiary section to make sure that the onus of proof is such that you only need a prima facie case to say that, yes, this or

Justice committee  I look forward to reading it.

Justice committee  I am not going to accuse the Supreme Court of Canada of political decisions. I think that when the Supreme Court of Canada made the decision as it related to the impracticality of these mega-trials, the court realistically saw that they were in fact that. We found that out first-

Justice committee  When I started as a judge, it was a nine-to-five job with no heavy lifting. That was back in 1974. Judging has completely changed: completely changed. With computers and the changes in the law and the shift in domestic cases and the way there are more long trials, it's a complete

Justice committee  You know I call him “Kowalski”, don't you?

Justice committee  That means “Smith” in Polish, you see; I've given him a new name.

Justice committee  I'm just telling you now that judging has changed.

Justice committee  Yes, I agree with you completely.

Justice committee  What is relevant in the eyes of one person may not be relevant in the eyes of another person. It's a very difficult thing to be able to balance, in certain ways. When Stinchcombe came to us, it really changed procedures completely at that time. I agree that it had a low threshol

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Well, you will always have, in every organization or every profession, some people who are unscrupulous. You're going to have your fair share of bad apples in the defence bar, and sometimes for the prosecutors, where they just don't comply. When that happens, it frustrates the wh

Justice committee  That's good.

Justice committee  We have pretrial conferences in all criminal trials that are going to be three days or more. Generally speaking, there is cooperation as between the two individuals, or it might be three defence counsel and one prosecutor. Sometimes when you add another defence counsel, then the