Through you, Chair, yes I did. I supported it when the City of Ottawa declared an emergency and also the province. By the time we arrived into the third week, it was clear that, without the much stronger measures that the Emergencies Act provided, as our police chief at the time put it, it was getting more and more difficult to see how this would end through policing. That was frightening. It was a frightening thing for people to hear, people who had lived through at that point weeks of threats to themselves, to their security. By that point, yes, I did believe that we needed the Emergencies Act.
I would say that had we had in place what we're looking at today, where the federal government responded to the area that could be part of the parliamentary precinct, including Wellington and south to Sparks Street north, it would have certainly mitigated much of the chaos, I believe, early on and perhaps then we would not have needed the Emergencies Act.