 Police have been heavily criticized for their handling of the incident, and the incident has revived debate concerning police use of tasers in Canada., a public inquiry is evaluating the use of conducted energy weapons (Tasers) in British Columbia, and to provide the public with a complete record of the circumstances of Robert Dziekanski’s death.In May 2008, at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, an RCMP officer used a taser on 82-year-old Frank Lasser while he was in his hospital bed.