Thank you very much.
My clock will start, I guess.
Minister, again, thanks for being here.
I was disappointed that you referred to this as an “adversarial” session, because I see it as fact-finding and within the legislation. That's just a statement, because I don't believe it should be adversarial.
There were a couple of areas, though, that concerned me when we were walking through the blockade. I live in the city of Ottawa and I'm the senator for here.
One was the fact that the mayor was negotiating an agreement with people who we had agreed were committing a criminal act. Did that play into the decision of the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act, the fact that a contract was signed by the mayor and I think Madam Lich in relation to allowing them to fortress around Parliament Hill in exchange for a release of other property?