Justice committee  First, as was pointed out by Mr. Ehsassi earlier and by others, the number of prosecutions is so minimal that it has no effect on efficiency. On the other hand, you don't give prosecutors discretion when it comes to crimes that are universally considered to be jus cogens crimes.

Justice committee  That's a very good point. The other point is, how are you going to...? Ursula and I have been in this business, combined, for over 60 years. I've been practising for over 40 years. I have yet to have one Crown attorney tell me why he or she is proceeding by way of indictment on a hybrid offence, and another one on the exact same type of charge is proceeding by way of summary conviction.

Justice committee  That is one of the things that my colleague talked about, which is to at least get the guidelines done clearly. Frankly, if there's going to be hybridization for anything, let's make them clear.

Justice committee  All right. Let me just say that those are not the areas for you to hybridize. Frankly, if you want to deal with increasing the efficiency of courts, I'd be happy to tell you how you should cut, not add, to the Criminal Code and learn to recognize the difference between a minor crime of momentary stupidity or inadvertence versus an actual major crime.

Justice committee  Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, I think you should have the brief paper that I sent to the committee. I leave that to you to read. I want to talk about words, and I want to talk about words that promote and glorify acts in support of genocide and terror. Recently, the Canadian Parliament passed a resolution declaring the Rohingya to be the victims of genocide, yet this very same government wants to reduce the significance of promoting hate and genocide and terror.