Thank you, Chair.
I'm very grateful for this piece of legislation. I'm grateful for your testimony here today.
As I'm reading through the legislation, I realize now that when I was a park warden in Parks Canada—I was a backcountry warden—my horses, Moberly, Yeager, Vim, and Cowboy, my service animals that helped me do my job as a mounted law enforcement officer, peace officer, which qualifies under this legislation, would have been afforded this protection had the need ever arisen.
I wish we had somebody here to talk a little bit more about the horse side of things, because I think a police horse is trained a little bit differently than a national park warden horse because it's used in a completely different environment.
I have some concerns about the test when it comes to training because I don't know if a park warden horse trained for backcountry operations, and so on, would meet the law enforcement test. A horse in downtown Toronto might be trained to do things like work in a crowd control situation and so on. I'd be curious to ask somebody about that. I don't know if you guys have any experience that can help me feel a little more assured that park warden horses would be protected under this legislation.