Justice committee  Sure. The case law that I'm familiar with certainly suggests that peremptory challenges could be used in a given case to increase the diversity of a jury. The way that would work is that if you had an initial array of, say, 30 white male jurors, in theory someone could use some o

Justice committee  I haven't. It's not my normal area of practice, and I agree with Mr. Roach that it's a complex one where you're, in one sense, sort of trading off the existence of the preliminary hearing against any streamlining effect it might have. I'm not aware of any research or literature t

Justice committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to make a submission on Bill C-75. I am Crown counsel at Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General, but it's important that I make clear I'm appearing in my personal capacity, and that my views don't represent the Government o