Mr. Chair, I think it's important for everybody to know that in our whole security posture on the Hill, first and foremost the issue of parliamentary privilege, I'd like to reassure the member, is the pierre angulaire. That's the cornerstone of everything we do in security.
To go to the member's question, I think it's important for members to know that each and every morning the RCMP, House of Commons security services, CSIS, and Ottawa city police have a conference call. In that conference call we go over everything. We do literally a threat and risk assessment of any threats to the precinct and to members each and every day. Then our security posture is either raised or lowered, or maintained, based on that threat and risk assessment.
For example, should there be a heightened incident going on somewhere that we're concerned about, what we do is we put more plainclothes armed officers out among the precinct. That doesn't interfere with everybody else, but the security posture is raised in congruence to that threat and risk assessment that's done on a daily basis.
We've been successful, I guess, in responding to increased security threats through a discreet and measured way, which keeps Parliament open to Canadians and to everyone so that no one is unduly concerned or impeded, by doing just that: a threat and risk assessment and establishing a security posture for the day that's congruent to that threat and risk assessment.
I hope that answers your question.