Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I'm somewhat surprised to hear you say that if a person is tasered and does not die on the spot, then the taser is not likely responsible for that person's death, if it occurs later. A person could go out and shovel snow—we have had a lot of snow—and die three hours later. You would argue that shovelling snow had nothing to do with that person's death, that he would have died anyway. I find your argument somewhat fallacious.
Getting back to the use of the taser, you maintain that without the taser, officers would have to resort to using a firearm. That's what you said. I lived in England. Police officers did not carry weapons and still managed to makes arrests. So then, a firearm is not a requirement for making an arrest. Are tasers really necessary then?
Moving on to a more delicate subject, does this have anything to do with the officers, the people on duty...? Personally, I'm a feminist, but I have heard that in many police forces, many women...