Thank you, Chair.
There are two items of critical importance when the forensic DNA testing is being done; one is timeliness, and the other one is accuracy.
Madam Fraser, in exhibits 7.6 and 7.9 you deal with both of those. Exhibit 7.9 is particularly disturbing. It deals with a piece of evidence that had 100 spots of blood, but when the laboratory's automated processes were used, no DNA was found.
Then when I take a look at the timelines on the chart you provided in exhibit 7.6, what we see is that in fact with the forensic labs and their processes, we have no assurances that violent criminals are not walking the streets.
Obviously blood was involved in the crime from table 7.9, and when we take a look at table 7.6, it's incredibly disturbing. When we look at the turnaround times, in fact we're endangering the public. When we compare to countries like Sweden, they spend half as much in terms of financial resources, have half the number of people doing this sort of testing, and turn around in 28 days. We turn around in 114 days, so in each one of these cases we are potentially putting the Canadian public unnecessarily at risk for an additional 90 days--three months. As well, with the processes in place, we have no guarantees that violent criminals are not walking the streets because the RCMP isn't doing their job.
Is that a fair assessment?