Public Safety committee  I'll take that question.

Public Safety committee  Okay, go ahead.

Public Safety committee  I was going to say that usually the judge will entertain and look at the data, and in fact from time to time will call an expert from the monitoring company, such as ourselves, to ask for clarification on what the signals mean. For the most part they will take it into considerati

Public Safety committee  We have agreements with CBSA, and we have had agreements with CSC. That particular agreement with CSC ended in August of 2011. The agreement with CBSA is an ongoing affair.

Public Safety committee  We offer typically a rental agreement whereby we offer them technology on a daily basis. They take that technology and they put it on the clients of their choice, and then they monitor the data, the alarms, and the alerts, and they do updates themselves.

Public Safety committee  No, we're not lobbyists and we're not registered as lobbyists.

Public Safety committee  We have not met with anyone who is elected. We meet regularly with various operational people who run their programs. Those would be the only people we would deal with.

Public Safety committee  We do not. To date we've only sold in Canada.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we do.

Public Safety committee  Michael Nuyen actually handled the direct interface with the folks in Manitoba, so I'm going to let him field that one.

Public Safety committee  Basically, we haven't seen a lot of use of alcohol bracelets, but they are transdermal. They fit against the skin and collect samples of the sweat that comes off the person's leg. They can actually take a reading fairly quickly once the alcohol has been absorbed into the bloodstr

Public Safety committee  We purchase, rent, and buy different technologies from a variety of suppliers. Our biggest provider is a company called BI Incorporated, in the United States of America. We take their technologies and we employ them here in Canada. We would put them on a variety of clients, or we

Public Safety committee  In my opinion, there have not been large enough programs in Canada that have been studied, so my answer is that I have not seen studies that clearly state one way or the other that there is a rehabilitative component in using an electronic monitor.

Public Safety committee  I think that is the link. Electronic monitoring is a tool—an audit or an accountability tool—and what you're trying to do with the technology is not so much to rehabilitate but to try to set down a set of positive behavioural patterns. Whether that will make a difference or not

Public Safety committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. What I was going to do was run through my comments and then move to the questions, if that is appropriate.