Garry Breitkreuz at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

I'd like to bring this meeting to order.

This is meeting 22 of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We are continuing our study of tasers.

I would like to welcome to the committee the four witnesses before us: Mr. John Butt, consultant with Pathfinder Forum; Ms. Christine Hall, emergency department physician; Monsieur Pierre Savard, professor at the University of Montreal; and Mr. Bernard Lapierre, ethicist and philosopher, also from the University of Montreal.

Welcome. We very much look forward to your testimony. I hope we can go the full two hours. Unfortunately, however, votes are scheduled in the House.