Madam Chair, I'll be very brief.
Senator Smith, the way the system worked at that point was that very quickly the different levels of law enforcement and intelligence got together through joint teams. We had a team here in Ottawa. There was a team in the province of Ontario as well, which was stood up with the OPP. The purpose was to share and understand, in a very dynamic way, intelligence and information.
From a CSIS point of view, my people's job at the table would have been to bring in intelligence about the threat actors we were concerned with and get information from law enforcement to inform our own investigation.
That very dynamic process was taking place at the officials' levels with law enforcement and intelligence in Ottawa and also in the province of Ontario. That information was then fed up to the incident response group that Minister LeBlanc referred to earlier, so that the cabinet, represented by the members at the IRG, would receive that information and advice.