I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, but everything that has just been said is completely incorrect. I don't agree with any of it.
Mr. Brookson is director of PPS. His people were sitting in the national capital regional command centre. His people are on Intersect, which is an Ottawa police-led intelligence group. He spoke to Chief Sloly the day that he called Mayor Watson.
I had arranged for a call with him on the next morning, but I spoke to Chief Sloly right after he spoke to Mr. Brookson, and Chief Sloly filled me in on all the details. He advised Mr. Brookson about what was happening with the operation.
Our emergency plan is there to support. Sometimes we lead it, but, in this case, police led it. Our emergency plan is designed to support police. It was a police-led operation, so this isn't a failure of the city enacting its emergency plan.
As for Mr. Brookson, I didn't hear all of this testimony about putting a statement out there that he never got a call from the mayor or from the city manager and that he wasn't aware of the situation or where it was on the ground. I have a hard time believing that given that he spoke to Chief Sloly half an hour before Chief Sloly spoke to me, and Chief Sloly told me that he had briefed him completely on what the situation was on the ground.