Sir, thank you very much for your question.
I certainly can't speak to any agency other than the RCMP on the procurement side of things. For a number of months, if not years, we have been implementing training of our cadets at Depot Division, even up to today. Cadets at Depot Division are given only a familiarization period on the CEW as part of their self-defence program and instructions on the IMIM.
There are a lot of things we have to teach the cadets, and we only have five and a half months to do it, so something has to be dropped in order to put something else in. We're moving to the event that a cadet coming out of training and going to a detachment, wherever that may be, is fully trained in the complete IMIM with the taser, the CEW, as well.
There were plans on the procurement side of things to purchase equipment and to purchase CEWs for that purpose, so it kicked in at that time. There were also orders on the books through our procurement functions--the same as any government department, we have to go through Public Works--to replace the old M26s through the regular evergreening of the program itself. On the report that we were stockpiling or augmenting our arsenal with CEWs, it was just a timetable of procurement, sir.