Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Smith and Mr. Palmer, for being here today.
I think this session and this review was brought about by the tragic death of Mr. Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport, although many other factors were attached to that as well. But I think it has galvanized people's concern about tasers across the country, which was already beginning to grow. I often refer to it as “taser creep”, because I am seeing more and more use of it in situations that, at least as they're described, do not seem to me to be the next step below using a gun.
Mr. Smith, when you're selling the taser, I don't believe you make a recommendation on where it should go in the continuum of force. Is that correct?