There are a wide variety of circumstances that might be of interest. The difficulty in a riot or unlawful assembly is the protection of the officers who are there to protect the public. You know, we're given a certain amount of tools to try our very best to do that, but in reality, many times the officers are simply required to observe and to then take action when appropriate, unless lives are at risk. Then they'll gain entry. It's sort of difficult.
But the bar that's put in place in that subsection, the intent section, is extremely high. It has been my personal experience that to gain a conviction, or to even get a charge laid for that particular section, is very difficult. You almost have to have, as an example, the offender running from the bank with a nylon stocking on, with the money in one hand and a pistol in the other. That's the kind of requirement it takes. That kind of difficulty does little to help officers who are facing people who are involved in riots.
When the officers maintain a line in front of protesters, you have to imagine what happens. Many of them will come right up in front of the officers' faces screaming obscenities and yelling and screaming with their faces covered. They commit an offence, but you don't know who they are. If you take action, the fight breaks out instantly. So you have to rely on tools. If they don't have masks on, and this kind of unlawful assembly is under way, we think we could certainly take action later on.