Public Safety committee  There would have to be a threshold in order to get a peace bond for one of these individuals in the first place, so they'd have to demonstrate something. I can't speak to any specific cases or things that are being looked at, but yes, currently there are none in effect right now.

Public Safety committee  Well, any increase in the threshold will make it a little more difficult for law enforcement to potentially get a peace bond. What we'd have to use is one of the other tools at our disposal. Perhaps that is surveillance or some other tool that is available to law enforcement and

Public Safety committee  My service specifically is stretched to the maximum in dealing with traditional crimes, as Laurence would describe them, such as homicides and those types of things and the increases in certain types of crimes, and also dealing with these emerging issues, such as human traffickin

Public Safety committee  What is my assessment of the risk to front-line officers, to the public?

Public Safety committee  With the returning foreign fighters, the prolific use of the Internet to try to incite people or get people to radicalize, I would suggest that yes, in my estimation the risk to the Canadian public is higher than it was six or seven years ago.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  No, it just changes the threshold, as you pointed out.

Public Safety committee  I think the simplest way for me to sum it up is what Laurence mentioned. Really, nowadays, either technology is the target or it enables the crimes to be committed. Everything we do and everything we encounter from a policing standpoint involves some form of technology at this st

Public Safety committee  Go ahead, Laurence.

Public Safety committee  We've addressed it to some degree, but yes, whenever you raise some of the thresholds, it does make it a bit more difficult to convince a judge that we need to proceed with this. Any time the thresholds are raised, it could cause some issues. That remains to be seen, but that sai

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, and going back to my point about the three issues, it's the intelligence-to-evidence conundrum, really. Laurence spoke to it a bit more eloquently than I. Some of this information is gathered in theatre. It's difficult, first of all, to protect the identity of the individual

Public Safety committee  That's where the problem lies.

Public Safety committee  That's right.

Public Safety committee  I don't have that.