You are correct, Madam Chair, there were counter-protests planned. I think the biggest challenge, as the commissioner alluded to earlier, was the size and funding and several people using this platform to manifest their dissatisfaction with COVID, the government, or any other element they could.
It drew a lot of people. What's interesting is that when the Emergencies Act was invoked, that weekend we no longer saw 5,000 people converge downtown. There were fewer, so it did act as a deterrent. The challenge was the size, the number of people. One of the concerns was the safety of the police officers who were out there.