Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for coming today. We're learning a lot.
I guess I'll start out with a comment, Mr. Kennedy, and perhaps then a question. For 30-some years I worked as a police officer in Ontario. As you know, the Province of Ontario has an oversight body, or a police public complaints commission, referred to as OCCPS, the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services. I can tell you that it's a very valued component in public safety in Ontario today. Just as I value your position with the RCMP and the fact that you provide a place where people can go who have issues with the policing services, that's a value to all of us, as well as to the people of Canada.
The other comment I'm going to make has to do with something you talked about. You mentioned that in certain cases there have been commissions to study particular issues. Then you mentioned that the former public safety minister had tasked you--along with the budget--to do a study into the taser issue.
Would you say that the assignment was perhaps able to alleviate the necessity for a commission into that? And very quickly, sir, because there's another follow-up question after that, would you say that it probably was good value for money?