Certainly. Looking into recent history, there has been much criticism of the mass arrests that took place in Quebec in 2001 during the free trade area of the Americas protests. That pattern of mass arrests is exactly what we're seeing fleshed out, and even on steroids, as it were, the weekend of the G-20.
This is the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Over 1,000 people were held, and at least 740 without charge. And we've seen many of the charges crumble in court as they've attended and had them withdrawn, as the media has reported.
From our group's perspective, we are seeing, as we've indicated in the report, a pattern of targeting of social justice activists. In essence, what we're saying is the policing and the pattern of policing, which involved surveillance at the beginning, harassment of activists, leading up to illegal detention and arrest, is one that we've seen before, such as around the free trade area of the Americas, but essentially beefed up and on steroids with respect to what we saw at the G-20.
Those conclusions that we've drawn I think are rational under the circumstances of what we've seen and what our on-the-ground observations were.