Yes, sir. First of all, there was a very clear nexus between the demonstrations and the blockades that were happening here in Ottawa through fundraising and other activities, and frankly, auxiliary and spokes of the protest. We were seeing these rolling convoys, and they were popping up at a number of points of entry. Those points of entry, really, in my mind, elevated this to a very significant threat to national security, because that's critical infrastructure. Those transportation corridors, those vital supply lines, the connection to manufacturing in Ontario and other parts of the country, those are critical infrastructure issues in this country.
We believed it was necessary to end the blockades in Ottawa and to provide better protection to all of those points of entry because of the problems that law enforcement had encountered in keeping them open.
We had some success. For example, as a result of an RCMP investigation, a number of individuals were arrested for very serious crimes. The blockade was removed at Coutts, but it persisted at Emerson and the Pacific Highway. It took seven days to open the corridor at Windsor, but we were receiving strong intelligence, and frankly, the protesters were being quite vocal that they were going to roll on to the Blue Water Bridge at Point Edward. They were going to go to the Peace Bridge. They were threatening, and we believed that those points of critical infrastructure were also at risk. Preventive measure were taken to discourage that, and to do it in a way that did not necessitate the use of an overwhelming force, but rather to create strong disincentives to the continued disruption and taxing of critical infrastructure, constituting a national emergency.