As I said, we contacted people before providing information to financial institutions. During this time, a lot of people wanted to leave, but were not in a position to leave because the streets were not cleared. We instructed these people to be ready and to make sure their truck was ready to leave when the streets were cleared, and then provided a picture of the situation on different streets in Ottawa. That information was passed on to the command centre in charge of freeing the streets.
On March 7th, 2022. See this statement in context.