Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Cooper, for presenting to committee. Not often do we get the opportunity to have you at the other end of the table. It's probably a delight for most people.
Back in my home province of Manitoba, I was speaking with the Manitoba safety accident investigator in the course of an investigation of an accident. We were talking about it, and I said, “What kinds of things are you looking for?” He said, “I'm looking to see if the individual was trained properly, if there was a proper work procedure for what was supposed to happen, whether the employee followed the procedure, and whether something was missing.” He said, “At the end of the day, we're looking for links in the chain that are missing.”
When I look at proposed paragraph 518(1)(c), you've changed the wording from “may” to “shall”. It seems to me when I look at the situation with Constable Wynn and Auxiliary Constable Bond that the tools were accessible and readily available to them, but it wasn't necessarily prescribed that they use them as far as a police officer conducting a bail hearing. He obviously didn't use all of the resources that were available to him.
It seems to me that the intent of this bill is to make sure the link in the chain that was missing is now put back in to make the chain complete. Would that be your understanding?