Thanks very much, Chair.
Deputy Minister Stewart and officials, welcome. We appreciate your testimony here tonight.
I want to go back to some of the questioning that Mr. Green initiated with respect to your perspective on the events leading up to the invocation of the emergency measures.
Earlier tonight we heard your colleague Deputy Daigle say that the events exceeded the capacity of the jurisdictions in play at the time. That's referred to in section 58 of the measure itself.
When did you come to the view with your colleagues that this was in a sense a collective judgment as to where things were going in this, what you describe as, unprecedented and unpredictable set of circumstances?