Senator, you're better informed on this than I am, because of your background. To give one example, my understanding is that in jurisdictions other than Ontario, their emergencies legislation gives the power to authorities to be able to press companies into providing services during a crisis. Ontario's legislation did not. It did not allow them to require tow truck drivers to do it. My argument would be that this should be dealt with at the level of the Ontario legislation, and if that power is needed, give it there.
Similarly, if the argument is made that it would have taken too much time to swear in police officers in Ottawa who were coming in from other jurisdictions and that's an issue, amend whatever other statute is necessary to deal with that. Don't require the government to invoke the federal emergencies legislation to deal with that sort of situation.
You can serve the public really well if the recommendations that this committee makes are for ways that would ensure that, if there were similar circumstances in the future, there would be no need to invoke the act.