Thank you for the question.
I think you're drawing a comparison, perhaps between the police, who are very well trained, and private security guards, who would be effecting a number of citizen's arrests. We can't necessarily expect the private citizen to be familiar with what an arrest is and so on.
As I mentioned, we are going to be providing some public education materials to advise the public that this is not meant to encourage them to take the law into their own hands; their first resort should always be to the police.
I don't think we would have concerns about private security companies not being well trained. Certainly in our meetings with them, when we were looking at options for law reform, and in their testimony before the committee, they did indicate how very frequently they are engaged in this activity.
It's a very sophisticated and well-trained organization. Because so many businesses do rely on private security guards, they would not be wanting them to engage in conduct that was abusive. And they are monitored and regulated in other ways than through the Criminal Code.
I don't think we have concerns that there will be abuses because of these reforms that would be any different from what might occur now. In fact, our hope would be that because the law will be changed and there will be more public awareness of this, it will be the opposite. There will be more rigour in terms of avoiding any potential abuse.