I'm very pleased with the legislation. I think it has controls on it that I believe need to be in place. From an RCMP perspective, we've even tightened our policies to a greater extent than the legislation sets out. We've reduced and kept the number of senior officials to three, with myself being the main senior official and the other two only to approve authorization requiring senior official approvals in my absence.
We've wanted it and we're very pleased that it has actually some controls on it. It's worked very well for us. You may hear from, and I have spoken to, other law enforcement agencies that have a concern over the amount of time it takes to designate public officers. In the RCMP case, from our competent authority, we get a very quick turnaround, so that doesn't cause us a problem. With some agencies, I understand it's taken as much as a month and a half to get an undercover operator designated, and of course that causes operational problems.