Thank you very much.
Welcome to the committee, Mr. Sloly.
This is a good opportunity for this committee to perhaps help clear the air on some inconsistencies that we've seen, both in the public discourse around this in the lead-up to your departure and what I would personally view as a breakdown in policing as it relates to the occupation and events that ultimately led to the invocation of this act.
In his testimony before this committee, when I put a question to him about your statement that there may not be a policing solution to the demonstration and that the institutions and police services were unprepared for the convoy, Minister Bill Blair said, “I accept Chief Sloly's assessment that he was unprepared for what took place in Ottawa.”
I want to give you a chance to respond to that. Were you unprepared for what happened in Ottawa, or was the Ottawa Police Service unprepared for what happened here?