That is absolutely true. In this type of situation, with a protest, when you are bringing in many members of the RCMP and municipal forces to a location, you're going to be putting the most experienced and the most trained ones in the front lines making the arrest. The rest are going to be there, but they're going to be, for want of a better term, “directing traffic”. They're not given the responsibility. There's a possibility there—they have the right, the power—but there's not the expectation that they would be exercising that.
On May 8th, 2012. See this statement in context.