Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Deputy Chief Bell, when he was asked at the commission about the meeting with protesters, said, “I truly believed it took the temperature of the protest down and that was a good outcome”.
Mr. Kanellakos, you were on the ground. You were a city official who actually met with the protesters. Do you think it would have had an additional cooling effect if someone—anyone—from the federal government had met with the main organizers and heard their grievances? After all, they were here to meet with the government, and the federal government would have heard their concerns with the federal mandates and restrictions and how those were impacting their livelihoods.
Do you think it would have had an impact on the protesters?