Thank you, Mr. Ménard.
There is one point of clarification that I would like to seek from the witnesses as well as the committee.
Being a former police officer, when I went through my career as an officer, there was in a way an overview of what happens in a courtroom. You have the defence, the prosecution, the police, and the judge working with one goal in mind: to determine the innocence or guilt of a party. Now I hear words like police are “special interest”, judges are here, prosecutors are there, and there is this huge division developing amongst the so-called team that should be driven by the purpose to find the guilt or innocence of a person.
So are police now considered the special interests in this whole affair of the justice process? I guess I'm at a loss here as to when that happened, but several times I've heard in this committee that now all of a sudden the police are a special interest.