Public Safety committee  There was a study that was conducted in Chicago on pigs, which was quite famous, and one of the people investigating that was a police officer, who was conducting some of those investigations. One of the points they made was that they could not get ethical clearance to do the tes

Public Safety committee  My position would be this: I would take the police, at the very least, back to where they were supposed to be in the first place, before they instituted what Mr. Kennedy described in his report. I commend that report because it seems to me that it was a very well done report, the

Public Safety committee  With all due respect, we're in a sad circumstance if Parliament can't control our police officers and actually tell them what they're required to do. If we've got that problem, we've got a bigger problem in this country. This is a democracy, but at the end of the day, the buck

Public Safety committee  Well, one of the biggest differences—and I think this is an issue this committee ought to be concerned with, because it does deal with public safety—is that when somebody shows up at primary customs and they go through a computer, you would think that there would be some alarm be

Public Safety committee  Exactly. And they have to have a place to be able to be turned over to and dealt with, and the airport authority ought to be charged with that job. It's one of its jobs: moving traffic, directing people to where they might want to go, and having an opportunity to do that. And in

Public Safety committee  I think it's absolutely part of the question as to what the use-of-force continuum is, where you can use any particular weapon or any device. At the earliest point, a police officer, by being there in a uniform, is the first line of defence. His second line of defence is the me

Public Safety committee  Just so the committee is aware, she's going through a particularly difficult time right now. Yesterday would have been her son's 41st birthday, so being at the airport was a trying event for her. She was given the opportunity to lay some flowers and a card for him there. I just b

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I'll be wrapped up within five to ten minutes. I'll try to wrap it up fairly quickly.

Public Safety committee  The point to this is that if anybody anywhere along the line had done their job on that evening.... Remember, he was let back into that secure area because he was lost. He thought, “I'm being taken out of here”--even though he didn't want to leave--“because I'm supposed to meet s

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, committee members for inviting us to be here today and to present our version of events. With respect to the case of Robert Dziekanski, Mrs. Cisowski's son, this was more than just an incident about tasering, and that's the point that I th