Speaker, I hope the hon member will appreciate, as a lawyer, that you cannot discuss the findings of the commission; what the commission will pronounce on. I think it is an unfortunate thing that you might want us to make the judgment now on whether they acted professionally or not. I think we would expect the commission to pronounce on that.
I also don't agree that the police are unprofessional. They are professional people; they are trained. It is not true that they are not trained. Nobody becomes a police officer without training. They are trained. They are professional. They do their professional work. I don't want to go into the circumstances that confront the police, particularly because at this point in time, we have a commission of inquiry. The facts- at times - and as a lawyer you know this - can be different from what you perceive, as a person, to have happened.
So, I don't think that I should be dragged in to a point where I should make a judgment. The fact of the matter is that an incident happened, and we have sent a commission of professional people who are qualified to make a judgment to do so, particularly because it is a tragedy and a very emotional matter. I think that if we play around with it, we are not helping the situation or the commission itself. So, I am not going to go into what it is, how professional it was, and what happened. I think we will get evidence of what actually happened. Then, after judgment, I am sure we will be free to critique it and perhaps, as a legal person, you would have a better way of criticising some other legal people. You always criticise one another anyway, as legal people. There will be nothing new.