Mr. Kania pointed out one of the issues with respect to the taser when he talked about children. I appreciate that Mr. Kania wasn't present, and I don't mean that in any derogatory sense, but we did have a medical expert before the panel in the last session, a doctor who dealt with emergency room and trauma. She spoke to us about a 14-year-old boy who was 6'2'' and could not be controlled by the medical people. The police people were brought in. Sometimes the only way to protect that child from injuring himself and others is something like a CEW. I would suggest that it may be very difficult to simply say that we won't use it on a child.
The other issue is that I don't know how you define by looking at someone whether the person is a child or not. It's difficult to look at someone by age. When you define it in a policy, it would seem to me that when you say you cannot use something for someone under the age of 16, and it turns out someone was 14 but looked 16, this creates problems. So I would say that your policy of using it only when necessary—and there's also the rule that he who uses force must justify it—applies to the taser as it does to any other weapon.
I'm a little puzzled about how you can eliminate its use in every situation that may or may not come up, simply based on age. I haven't heard that in Canada we have used tasers in schools. I'm wondering if that's not a red herring and if you have any comments.