Thanks to all the witnesses.
Dr. Sylvestre, I will focus on you, if I may. I want to say to you that I thought your submission was first-rate. I really appreciated the empirical work that led to it and all of your research. I thought the specific recommendations were exactly what we needed, so bravo. You gave us an amazingly helpful brief.
I simply want to give you the opportunity to elaborate on some of the points you made. There are so many of them that I'm afraid we won't do justice to them in the amount of time we have. For example, you suggest that we define the term “vulnerable populations”, as it's too vague. Interestingly, the chiefs of police witness made the same suggestion earlier today.
What I really want you to elaborate is on page 2 of the English version of your submission, where you talk about the requirement that “conditions imposed by peace officers be reasonable and proportionate considering the nature and seriousness of the alleged offence”.
First, isn't that exactly what the courts have said is to happen—the Antic ladder principles, and so forth?
Second, are you just not importing charter language in “reasonable and proportionate”? Will the whole thing essentially be one big charter argument if we adopt your amendment?