Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Bulmer and Mr. Swadron.
I think your idea that the commissioner may not be the appropriate person in all cases to be deciding what the public interest is offers a very useful observation; the idea that elected people perhaps should be involved in that decision as well is a good point.
I'd like to come back to consider the witnesses from the United States and the United Kingdom whom we had last week at our last meeting. My recollection is that they indicated that most people involved in the witness protection programs were people themselves involved in criminality. In fact, I think the gentleman from the United States said that in the U.S., something in the order of 95% or more of the people in the witness protection programs had criminal records themselves or were involved in criminality.
Mr. Swadron, you seemed to indicate that there were many people in Canada under the witness protection program who were honest, law-abiding citizens. Is that just your particular experience, or do you have any stats on it?