Through you, Madam Chair, again, the occupation outside of the precinct was the responsibility of the POJ lead. In fairness to Mr. Sloly's testimony, it's important to note that the sheer number of vehicles that were en route to Ottawa provided a small snippet of what the future was to hold with their arrival.
I don't think anybody was able to forecast that it would go into a full month, or some of the occurrences that happened during that period. Again, I need to remind you that I'm not a policing service.
When those operational plans were being worked up, yes, I always needed to know what the context was for the service, but it was in the realm of the policing organizations to come up with the operational plan to effectively deal with the individuals who were on Wellington Street and on the outskirts.