Thank you, Ms. Bendayan. Yes, to the best of my recollection, that is correct, although I would just emphasize to you and to the other members of the committee that while, at the time of the invocation of the Emergencies Act, we were making some progress with regard to restoring public order, we could not take it as an assurance or a guaranteed outcome.
As I've said in the past, progress was not necessarily linear. The advice we were getting was that law enforcement needed the Emergencies Act to be sure that they could resolve, for example, ambiguities around those who were staying close to ports of entry, which are obviously very critical infrastructure, and to be able to communicate very clearly that they should leave. The Emergencies Act provided that power to them.