Thank you, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Smith.
This is not an easy issue. One of the things I've noticed, with all of the coverage Mr. Smith has received over the last number of years, is the claim—and correct me if I am wrong—that tasers don't kill. We are told--and I have believed it to date but I'm questioning my own belief--that tasers are non-lethal alternatives to guns in the hands of police.
Are you suggesting to us--and if you are, I want you to admit it--that while 300 people have died in North America, 17 of them in Canada, subsequent to being tasered, tasers have not played any part whatsoever in their deaths?