Justice committee  It would be providing clear direction and guidance for exactly how we want decision-makers to make that decision. Where do we draw these lines? I don't think it's easy—about where these lines are precisely drawn. I have a lot of hesitation about arguing for wanting to hold more p

Justice committee  Unfortunately, I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but often we're looking at the time between arrest and the resolution of charges as sitting at somewhere over 100 days. Again, this is on average, so when we think about those who are in pretrial detention, you have a

Justice committee  That would be providing better, clear guidance and direction to decision-makers about what we want them to be thinking about and focusing on when they're exercising their discretion. We might also want to consider what might look like hurdles to custody, something similar to wha

Justice committee  That's correct, yes.

Justice committee  The number of individuals is 14,414.

Justice committee  It is 70.5% across Canada.

Justice committee  Yes, that is across Canada. Ontario sits at about 77%.

Justice committee  I believe that's what the empirical evidence demonstrates, yes.

Justice committee  That would be a reasonable way to go forward.

Justice committee  Yes. It's very difficult to identify who those people are with accuracy.

Justice committee  It is. It depends on our comfort level with getting it wrong and incarcerating people who should not be incarcerated.

Justice committee  Absolutely. That can also happen after they've been convicted and sentenced.

Justice committee  I completely understand. I'm just saying that at that point, we've proven it.

Justice committee  We face a variety of issues. It's not something that has a single answer to it. We bring far too many minor matters into the court system to begin with, and some of this could be resolved by encouraging the police to exercise their powers of release, to use the judicial referral

Justice committee  Yes, it is on the court and the Crown. Many of these adjournments are being requested for the purposes of getting defence counsel. That's mostly because people want to secure a consent release, understandably, rather than going to a show cause hearing. The Crown's the driver of