Public Safety committee  A medical emergency can require the use of force, but I do not know if the taser is the appropriate tool.

Public Safety committee  I go back to the question of the weapon's purpose. We need to ask ourselves if the taser, this non-lethal weapon, truly corresponds to our values, to the kind of society and police officers we want to have in Canada. If the answer is yes, we need not think any further. We are ta

Public Safety committee  I agree, and that is what I assumed. But let us look at the appropriate purposes. We see that there are far fewer injuries to police officers, and far fewer injuries to individuals being arrested. It is very important to see that the tool drastically reduces the number of injurie

Public Safety committee  Not at all. There is another problem. As a philosopher examining this issue, I have a hard time, as do you, understanding the purpose of this weapon. I do not know if we are saying the same thing; it is probably just a matter of language. Why was this tool created? What is the p

Public Safety committee  I would like to go back to the question of when police officers use tasers. I think it is clear that they should be used just before the lethal weapon. Several studies have been conducted on this in Europe, particularly in Switzerland. These are the circumstances in which this we

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to participate in this debate on the use of non-lethal weapons by Canadian enforcement agencies. I also appreciate the fact that the committee is allowing me to speak in my first language, which I hope will make my re