Well, like my colleague's, my job is to review and to make recommendations. My recommendations are not binding. Hopefully the document can be persuasive enough that when my final document comes out, the RCMP will look at it and see its merits, and that will cause them to examine their position.
In addition to their being an audience, clearly the minister is an audience for me, because like my counterpart in B.C., the Minister of Public Safety, under the statute, in subsection 5(1), can issue direction to the RCMP. The Commissioner of the RCMP has control and management, but the minister can in fact, if he chooses, issue a directive as to where the device should be placed.
So this is an issue, and I will certainly keep speaking publicly. I'll make my documents public. This is not going away, and at the next unfortunate tasering incident in which someone is killed, we're going to have a firestorm on our hands if no action has been taken. And we haven't seen the end of YouTube. These days everyone has a cellphone that can take films, and you're going to see more of these captured on YouTube.
My concern is that if we don't take appropriate action, there will be an erosion of public confidence in the police, which we can't take. The police need public support.