We had a reasonable apprehension, I think. We looked at other G-20 events that had taken place in other areas of the world, at other such large public gatherings where there were security challenges, and the likelihood of public demonstration and even violence was, I think, reasonably anticipated, given the history of such events. So we planned to provide a secure environment to try to police those things. It was determined by the planning team that these were the personnel and the equipment that were required to do that.
I can tell you that after the events of Saturday, when quite a violent clash occurred--a number of our cars were burned, many of our windows were broken--there was a great deal of intelligence available to us. We were monitoring the social media sites and the communications. We had people who were working and providing us with information on the planning of the various anarchist groups that were coming to Toronto, and were from Toronto, that were planning to engage in criminal behaviour.
As a matter of fact, on Saturday night they were widely advertising that they were going to rampage through the city of Toronto. They called it “Saturday Night Fever”. So we had a reasonable apprehension that we needed help.
Fortunately, because the G-8 had successfully concluded in Huntsville, the OPP sent a great deal of its resources down to Toronto to help us, to have additional police officers on the street. We wanted to ensure we had enough people there to resolve things as safely and as effectively as we could. Frankly, having enough police officers there to do that was, in my opinion, necessary.