Thank you, Chair.
Our fundamental problem with what Mr. Harris is proposing is that assault, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, impaired driving, dangerous driving, driving causing injury--all of those things would not attract, if they're done under summary trial....
If I'm a guy in that situation, and I have a choice between court martial and summary trial, and I know I'm going to get away with assault causing bodily harm, it's a summary trial for me. We'll have people who deserve criminal records for very serious offences not having criminal records, and that's fundamentally wrong.
I don't know if there's some way around that, but that should not be acceptable to anybody, frankly.