Quite frankly—and I will acknowledge to you that I wasn't suggesting that the Emergencies Act be invoked—I believed that it was necessary for us to examine all of the legal options that were available to us to determine whether or not the emergency that existed met the legal threshold. I thought that was an important thing to examine, as was looking at whether there were authorities that at the time were not available in any existing law in Canada to assist the police and whether those measures were available to us then.
Another important consideration was whether they would be effective in helping to bring about a peaceful resolution to this event.