Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Smith.
Many Canadians, this Canadian included, would have been working on the assumption that a taser would be used as a weapon of last resort before lethal force. But when I saw those video clips of what happened with Mr. Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport, I began to question that. I know there are a number of investigations going on, so you may not want to comment on that specific incident, but I found it quite shocking that four trained RCMP officers were not able to restrain this gentleman without using a taser.
What I am also hearing from Mr. Palmer and law enforcement generally and from Mr. Smith is that it is really meant to be an intermediate response, which I think puts a very different perspective on it.
I would like to come back to that, because I am a little confused about excited delirium syndrome. Mr. Smith, on your website—Taser's website—you refer to a term called “sudden in-custody death syndrome awareness”. Is that the same thing as excited delirium syndrome?