Thank you.
Mr. Chair, I would like to begin by suggesting that in my opinion, the American College of Emergency Physicians could hardly be called obscure.
Second, I believe that the information the honourable member has put forward in fact supports the position that our policies have changed. He cites a report that covers deployments from January 2008 to March 2008. The change that followed the committee's report in June 2008 occurred on June 18, 2008. So as of June 18, 2008, some months after the incidents the honourable member referred to, the RCMP changed its policies to make it clear to our members that they were not to use the CEW in situations in which people were merely being resistant. There had to be a situation of threat. So I believe that the honourable member and the committee will see, in our subsequent reporting, that there will be a decline in, and hopefully an elimination of, situations in which the device is used against resistant or cooperative people. And if those incidents occur, they will occur contrary to policy, and the officers who have been involved in those incidents will be held accountable for not following current RCMP policy.