Thank you to both witnesses for being here. Thank you for the work you do in your local communities.
Mayor Dilkens, I'll start with you. I'd like to understand the process that you went through to get the OPP assistance. Commissioner Carrique was here. I think you chair the police services board as well, so I'm trying to figure out which capacity you were in when you were having those discussions.
Within the act, it says that a municipal chief who “is of the opinion that an emergency exists” in the municipality “may request that the Commissioner” of the OPP give “assistance”. What we understood from Commissioner Carrique's evidence, if I remember correctly, is that the request came from your office to the premier and then on down. Am I accurate in that assumption?