Thank you very much, Chair.
Chief, I want to take you back to a comment you made about the exclusion zone. You said that the Emergencies Act was the only tool you had to invoke that, yet a mere three hours after the Emergencies Act was rescinded by the government, the Ottawa Police Service found other authorizations to bar people from the downtown area. You put out a bulletin saying that for public safety interests, an area that used to be known as the secure area downtown was no longer accessible to the public, so I wanted to remind you that there are other authorities that you could have used for exclusion zones.
You indicated, sir, that you had an OPS plan in place and that you required—and I think Deputy Ferguson said the same thing—manpower. You required resources.
When did the Ottawa Police Service ask for those resources? I know that Chief Sloly probably asked for them early on, but you would know that. Whom did you ask?