Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Very early on when we established the emergency operations centre we also established a group, which is well known in the city, called the traffic incident management group. It has representatives from our traffic and public works...and from the police and our emergency operations centre. That group works together to come up with a traffic plan depending on the jurisdiction of the event.
If it's a police-led jurisdiction such as this was, then the police take the lead on whether or not they approve the closure of roads through the discussions with the TIMG, the traffic incident management group.
In this particular case, they did get together. They established the group. They had those discussions, and the police did not want to close the roads, because they wanted the flow of traffic to be allowed throughout the city.