If the expanded use of EM is already included in Bill C-10, that means there was already a vision for expanding EM's use. I imagine it was based on some kind of evidence that it works. I just think we're in some kind of vicious circle here, where the government's going ahead with EM; it's even inserted provisions in its legislation. You seem to be making progress in terms of putting in an ask for funding for more research, and then somehow we're entering the picture to recommend that you just keep going in this direction. I just don't quite understand.
There are mixed results. You mentioned the mixed results or equivocal results. But there's one area where, quite frankly, it's not a complicated application—it doesn't put anyone directly at risk, really, if the system doesn't work perfectly—and that would just be tracking people's movements. If you took a population that was very low risk, you just wanted to know where they were at a given time, this would be excellent technology, one would think. And there wouldn't be any downside risk because the people you'd be tracking would not necessarily be dangerous offenders or even really offenders at all.
For example, would you see this technology being more applicable to the area of immigration? You might want to keep track of asylum seekers whose requests were denied and therefore the government is expecting them to leave the country, and maybe even the government has put out a deportation order. Would that not be the lowest risk and perhaps the most effective use, since in the other areas the results are mixed and you could run into the problem where, if you do have problems with the technology and you're dealing with high-risk offenders, there could be a risk to public safety if things don't work out?
Would you not agree that its best use is just for tracking movements and keeping track of people?