Thank you, Chair.
I just want to go back to something the chair just alluded to, and that was with regard to police officers in plain clothes. Maybe I'll just clarify a little bit, having dealt with a fair number of dog handlers, that they are in plain clothes. But with the RCMP they're normally in a blue uniform, not with a yellow stripe, and nine times out of ten they are accompanied by a uniformed police officer. The one exception would be when they get separated from the police officer in the pursuit of an assailant. But even at that, before releasing the dog they must identify themselves as a police officer, and they must also say, “If you do not stop, if you do not surrender, I will release the dog”.
That's just a clarification.
If I may, I'll turn the rest of my time over to my colleague, Mr. Calkins.