Thank you, sir.
Thank you to all three of our witnesses for appearing before us today. I listened with great attention to your testimonies, and I find them to be very informative and very well thought out. So thank you for that.
Mr. Mehdizadeh, you mentioned in your presentation the words “honour-based killings” or “honour killings”, and those are very disturbing to all Canadians. Certainly the Shafia trial brought that idea dangerously close to home as we all know. That was something nobody expected would be of concern to Canadians, but we found out otherwise of course.
Could you elaborate a little bit on your experience in the force with training on honour-based killing? In your opinion, is there sufficient knowledge within police services across the country to look out for that specifically?