I'd like to raise the following problem with regard to the motion introduced by Mr. Ménard. I had occasion to read it because we had it before. Paragraph 3 states: “[...] train Crown prosecutors specializing in combating street gangs.”
We heard two specialist witnesses who were not Crown attorneys. One was a representative of Sûreté du Québec, whose name I don't remember, and the other was a representative of the Vancouver police.
We don't need attorneys to specialize. We need specialists who come from the inside and who are police officers. Attorneys are something else. They may specialize thanks to the government, which sends them to take special courses for that purpose. However, the important thing, and what I understood, is that the gentleman whose name I don't remember, the Francophone who spoke...