Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here this morning to help us study Bill C-309.
My first question is for Mr. Webb.
You said that people who usually wear a mask do not have good intentions. I'm not sure I agree with that because, increasingly, we are seeing people with all sorts of identifiers during demonstrations. For several years now, with what's been going on pretty much around the world, we've been seeing more and more demonstrations of all kinds. People come disguised in all kinds of ways.
I'm wondering because if it was as simple as that, if masked individuals were usually criminals—based on what you said—you would already have section 31 of the Criminal Code available to you. It allows officers of the peace or a police officers to arrest anyone they have reasonable grounds to believe is about to commit a criminal offence.
So you would already have the tools necessary since you would be able to see them right away in a crowd. I think the problem is more complicated than that. More and more, people are showing up with all kinds of disguises. It becomes difficult to know who has good intentions and who doesn't. That is what we are looking at. Could you please provide some clarification about what you mean when you say that people with criminal intentions are disguised.