We had daily communications and emergency board meetings. There would be questions asked in the public session and in the confidential session. There would be questions around adequate and effective policing, which it is within the jurisdiction of the police services board to ask.
On February 5, at an emergency board meeting, one specific question asked of me by then chair Deans was, “Given the totality of the circumstances that you're facing”—I'm paraphrasing—“do you have the ability to provide adequate and effective policing in the city of Ottawa?”
Those, I think, are legitimate questions in legitimate forums around which they can express their concerns and priorities but not cross the line into directing operations.