I'm going to take you all back to October 22, 2014. I was the mayor of Hamilton. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. As I got to the office shortly before 10, we heard about the shooting on the Hill. Within about half an hour, we learned that it was one of ours, a Hamilton Argyll. Before noon, we understood that Corporal Cirillo had died. Early that afternoon, the police chief and I visited the family. On Friday, I rode in the motorcade—there was an unbelievable turnout of people along the Highway of Heroes—and the subsequent funeral was one of the major military funerals in Canada in recent history.
The events and the response by the people cried out for a response from the government. The government did respond, whether or not the response has been perfect.
Can I to start with you, Ms. Vonn? If you put yourself in that mind frame, at the time how did you see what would become of this, and then, how did you see the way the government subsequently took the matter into its hands?