Overall, as Mr. Kennedy, the Chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP has reported, our number of deployments of CEWs in 2008 was down approximately 30% from 2007. I would suggest that there are a number of contributing factors to this. As Mr. Holland said, there has been a lot of public and media attention on the use of tasers. A lot of it has underscored the risks associated with tasers.
I would say that the public attention, the attention inside the force following my last appearance, and our discussions of the risks associated with tasers, including the risk of death, have combined to heighten our members' awareness. I think it's a little dangerous to read too much into statistics, because we can't really predict with any accuracy what sorts of calls our officers will respond to today and what an appropriate response will be.