Yes and no. There was more to it before it came from my office.
In response to what we were seeing play out on the streets, my natural question to the police chief at the time was this: What do you need to deal with this? She said, “I need more bodies.” I asked, “How many bodies do you need, Chief?” She came back and said, “I need one hundred.”
I passed that information up the chain to the political folks whom I was speaking with. Then a request came in later that evening, saying, “Can you please put that request in writing?”
I told the chief that there had been a request to put it in writing. She drafted a letter. She and her office sent the letter to the Solicitor General of Ontario's office, and she and her office also sent that letter asking for 100 officers, to, I believe, Minister Blair, asking for RCMP support.
When I got a copy of those letters—I was copied on that email—I then sent them directly to Minister Mendicino and Sylvia Jones. I told the Premier of Ontario that the request was for 100 officers.
The chief made that request appropriately. I was just amplifying what the request was because everyone was asking, “What do you need? What do you need?”, so we put it in writing at others' request. Then someone made a decision that 100 officers were not enough and that 500 would be more appropriate, and they made the efforts to sent those human resources to Windsor.