Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, Mr. Gagnon, I would like to congratulate you for being here after what you went through last summer. If I had been in your place, I think that I would have been very hesitant to come and face authority figures again, whoever they were. I congratulate you for your courage.
I don't want to judge, Chief Blair, what really happened or not, or how you based your intention to arrest on the Sunday morning. I do want to question how it happened and what happened.
The way these kids were treated was inhuman. You may have had all the reasons to arrest them, but they were sleeping. They didn't need the force and the kind of aggressive manhandling that they got.
My only question is, why did your officers think it necessary to manhandle them that way?