Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Dr. Schafer, for being here with us at this hearing of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
My first question is related to research and innovation. Many of the witnesses who appeared before the committee have said that it might be important to invest in research and innovation and to create a department or national agency where best practices could be made available to all police services, urban or rural, throughout the country. I know that there are several research and innovation agencies in the United States.
Do you think that this would be a good way to transfer information among the various police services? Do those types of agencies function well? Are they used to good advantage in the United States?