All right. You say that's done in certain states; you refer to the case of Australia.
When I was a student, I took some courses in constitutional law. You've no doubt noticed that I am the youngest member of this committee, and thus the last to have taken constitutional law courses. We were told that, under section 8 of the Charter, when someone was stopped, that constituted an arbitrary detention, but one that was warranted on the ground that it would prevent carnage. The word used in the courses was “carnage”, and that was warranted in a democratic society.
I am prepared to take a favourable view of the police request. However, if we granted your argument, I don't know whether it would pass the Charter test in the Supreme Court—and on that point, perhaps we could get the opinion of your colleague, Mr. Rosenthal.