National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, that's a hard question to answer in the hypothetical, not knowing precisely what questions people might want to ask. And I've never been faced with torture yet, so I haven't actually had to decide what I would choose to do, although some people might describe some t

National Defence committee  There are about 80 countries who come to the Olympics. Every single one of those countries has a police force or an intelligence service or something. The reality is that we will be working with all of those security organizations of all those countries to try to ensure for their

National Defence committee  Most teams come with a security team or security representative, so we'll be working with them.

National Defence committee  Given that it is an international event involving a lot of other countries, there are lot of other people we'll be working with. Obviously the security partnership between Canada and the United States is a very close one, but there are a number of others, as you say, we'll be wor

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, at this juncture I don't have an expectation that there would be a rise in cost, but the reality is if there were an incident of a proportion that required additional resources beyond anything we've currently planned for, then obviously there may be, but at this jun

National Defence committee  If I might just ask on the second question, are you thinking of H1N1 in the context of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, because Citizenship and Immigration Canada is a major partner?

National Defence committee  In the context of the second question, the easy answer is that the Department of Citzenship and Immigration is a key partner in terms of the accreditation process for anybody coming to the games, or anybody entering Canada at that point in time. But clearly the key part is accred

National Defence committee  One of the biggest challenges is that this is a major event—it's a huge event involving a lot of people. In addition, it takes place in a complicated urban environment. Most winter games are not held in major urban centres like Vancouver. That, in and of itself, is a challenge.

National Defence committee  We believe we have put in place the tools required to deal with any potential security threats to the games.

National Defence committee  Assistant Commissioner McDonell may want to add more detail, but large numbers of officers who speak French will be drawn from police forces across the country. In fact, a large portion of the police effort will be drawn from police forces other than the RCMP, and I think one of

National Defence committee  Among other services from Quebec, there will be the Sûreté du Québec and the Montreal city police. Pat, you may want to add to that.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, the admiral or Assistant Commissioner McDonell may want to comment on the ongoing exercises. The reality is, for the Olympics, this has been a huge exercise program. As we alluded to, there is a central exercise program that we have called, for a lack of a better

National Defence committee  Assistant Commissioner McDonell may want to speak to that in more detail. Frankly, I think the structure the ISU has in place, and the number of organizations represented there, and the communications through the games coverage and urban domain areas are superb. It's a complicat

National Defence committee  We have no expectations at this point of any American contribution to the security effort for the games, apart from the ones I talked about earlier in the context of offshore, the border, and so on, where cooperation is ongoing every single day.