Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ladies and gentlemen, I really appreciate your being here today and taking us through some of the very technical parts of this bill relating to the tools that the police need to investigate these crimes, which I think everyone agrees are serious and have, as one of you said, a devastating impact on people.
Chief Chu, I'd like to ask you a question regarding the current policing process for these types of offences and how you would see things change if this bill passes. If I could just give you a hypothetical case, a young person has a conversation over the Internet with another person but doesn't have any way of verifying the identity of that person, and in relation to that discussion over a period of time, the young person sends an image of themselves to that person and subsequently that person threatens to do something with it. The young person then realizes that person is not a friend and is worried. If they come forward to their parents or a teacher and either the victim or one of those other people contacts the police today, what do you do? What can you do to find the identity of the person who has the image and is threatening to do something with it?