Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  I might add, the same as Chief Blair said, that we brought our people in and we brought in our supervisors an extra day early, and also our logistical people, to set up and to know the whole operation around the G-8. Then we brought the rest of our members in for a full day of tr

Public Safety committee  Yes. The one thing I would like to mention, nonetheless, is that even though we had a lot more time than Toronto, some of our challenges were around the building of infrastructure. For example, we had a detachment up there that looked after about 40 officers, and we had to go to

Public Safety committee  No, sir.

Public Safety committee  We had almost two years. We had a planning team in place approximately 18 months before.

Public Safety committee  There would have been significant challenges, and not just in security. We had concerns about housing people up there, about the accommodations. As you heard in the previous testimony of the RCMP, we had to create a whole trailer village just for our own staff. Overall, I think,

Public Safety committee  I'd like to thank you for the invitation to speak to the committee today in relation to the OPP's role in supporting security for the 2010 summits. I was the executive lead for the G-8 and G-20 summits for the OPP and part of the executive steering committee for the G-8 and G-20