Thank you, Mr. Elliott. I am favourably impressed by the way in which you carefully answered our questions and by the explanations you have provided.
I have practised long enough to know that police forces have used a variety of methods to subdue uncooperative individuals. Before the existence of the taser, many of these methods had been considered dangerous. I recognize that the invention of a device like the taser raised great hopes that the former methods would be used less frequently and that there would be a method which is absolutely safe, as far as that is possible, to subdue uncooperative people.
In time, it became clear that this method also involved some danger. The only studies that were available where those produced by the manufacturer, whose commercial practices were extremely persuasive, as is often the case with American companies. There is reason to doubt the reliability of the studies, which quite often had been funded by the manufacturer itself. I am pleased to see that there are now studies which are funded otherwise. I do appreciate the effort you have made to improve the situation.
I would like to get back to a point which was raised by my colleague from the Liberal Party: the investigation carried out by CBC. You state that you knew the results of the investigation before they were published. You also stated that you had already begun testing your devices.
Correct me if I am wrong: you intend to test all of your devices to determine whether their output may be far superior to that expected by the manufacturer.