Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you, everyone, for being here and for your presentations.
I'm wondering, Mr. Chair, if it's possible to get the presentations from those individuals who were not able to provide them ahead of time, because there was some interesting information provided.
It's nice to see people from Surrey. I've actually sat at this table a number of times, and coming from the largest city that's served by the RCMP, we're very pleased by that.
My first question is about data collection. I heard your acknowledgement that it has been quite a patchwork, if you will, in the past across the country in terms of how it's used and when it's used, so you're working at collecting that kind of data.
Here's my question, and I don't know what the answer to this is and I hope you will help me. I don't know how many taser reviews are going on--and that would be something interesting too, Mr. Chair, if it's possible to provide that to us, because there must be six, seven, eight, nine. I have no idea of the number of taser reviews going on across the country by provincial police forces, by individual cities, by whomever. We're going to have the work you're doing and we're going to have the work they're doing. I'm interested as to how all of that work comes together in a way that brings some consistency, not only to the collection of statistics but to protocols that are used and to outcomes from the use of tasers.
I know that in 2005 there was a B.C. review, and I see that the attorney general, Mr. Oppal, has now ordered another review of tasers. So again, this patchwork of review going on across the country concerns me, in terms of how we bring that together in the most cogent, coherent way, so that people across the country know that we are keeping statistics in the same way, that the protocols are the same, that the response to individuals is the same, that the medical responses are the same, or that there's been research that says this is how it should be done.
How do you see all of that information coming together?