Thank you very much.
I think it's interesting to look at this issue as if ion scanners weren't in place and what that would pose as a consequence from your perspective. The name Professor Hannem has come up already. In the testimony she gave this past fall, she did offer an explanation of ion scanners, it's true, but she's also been a very outspoken critic of the use of ion scanners.
I want to read something to you that she told to The Globe and Mail:
“If we were to stop the use of them [the ion scanners] entirely and go to manual searches and focus efforts on reducing demand inside the prison, focus efforts on harm reduction and drug rehab, I think that would go further than the ION scanner ever has.”
That's her position.
I would like to know this from you, Mr. Coons. If you were to take the ion scanner out of the equation, what should we expect? What would happen? What are the dangers of that happening?