On that, then, I suspect that it would be helpful to all of you to understand the role of each of the governments and document what that means in advance in a situation like this. There were multiple incidents that were taking place when the events in Ottawa were going on. I think the commissioner of the OPP testified to this today, that he had the whole province, and there were a number of different.... We had all kinds of things going. You could only stretch a provincial police service so far. Like the Ottawa Police Service, they were on their knees when they finished. We need to recognize that.
On October 27th, 2022. See this statement in context.