Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll share my time with Ms. Barnes.
Mr. Dandurand, we've had some testimony that would indicate that not all people are suited for the sorts of witness protection programs we've been referring to and that some kind of screening mechanism should be there to screen people.
Now, we've heard from the Ontario Provincial Police that they have delegated some responsibilities to the Toronto Police Service--and other services, I'm sure--so that they can respond right on the spot at the crime scene or during an investigation. I'd have to go back to my notes to recall exactly what they said, but my understanding of how it worked was that the police would be on a crime scene or doing an investigation, and someone might be forthcoming, and the police would make a commitment that they could get them into a witness protection program.
I think the way it works in practice is that the final sign-off has to come from the OPP; they have the authority. To give the credibility of the program to the police officers on the ground, there has to be some connection so that if they say they're going to get you into the program, they will. In practical terms, I suspect it's a fairly strong delegated authority.
How do you balance those two competing interests in the sense of the need to be able to be flexible on the ground with police and potential witnesses, and the reality, I suspect, that not all people are suited to this kind of program? How do you deal with that?