Hon. Peter Harder at the Declaration of Emergency Committee

On April 26th, 2022. See this statement in context.

April 26th, 2022 / 7:10 p.m.

Peter Harder

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Welcome, Minister.

I want to pursue a little bit of the questioning of Senator Boniface.

I'm a senator from Ottawa, as you might know. My question is this: What took you so long?

Why did it take three weeks of the disruption that was visited on Ottawa? I respect that you had the others on the border, but I want to talk about Ottawa. Why did it take three weeks for you to act?

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