A quote from the March 6th edition of The Chronicle Herald:
Stephen Ayer, executive director of the Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia, said he was disappointed that the first phase of the report didn’t talk about mental health and Taser use. He said he hopes the expert panel will address the matter in the report’s second phase, but he wishes a member of his society had been asked to join.
"We have people who have lived through being Tasered, have lived through that experience and have things to say about that," Mr. Ayer said.
The members of the expert panel are Constance Glube, retired chief justice of Nova Scotia; Assistant Commissioner Atkins; Deputy Chief Tony Burbridge of Halifax Regional Police; Dr. Stanley Kutcher, professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University; Christopher Murphy, chairman of Dal’s sociology department; Dr. Matthew Bowes, the chief medical examiner for Nova Scotia; and Alice Almond of the Association for Safer Cape Breton Communities.
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