Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
One of the main mandates of the Government Operations Centre is to monitor for those kinds of events. In broader terms, this act refers specifically to emergencies. It also monitors for the broader public safety issues. So we were very actively monitoring when the shootings occurred in Montreal a few weeks ago, or months ago when there was an explosion in Tim Hortons in Toronto. Were they terrorist events? Exactly what were they?
We monitor from a number of sources, obviously from federal sources, such as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP. Canada Command also has a monitoring service through the United States Northern Command as well. We also monitor media to get the first, perhaps unconfirmed and uncorroborated, information, but certainly a heads-up on a lot of those things. There is a process of notification within the federal family and then also to our provincial and territorial colleagues of events that happen.
After the U.K. bombings, the federal family got together very quickly. It was four in the morning out west for our minister at the time, and we had a telephone conference call to make sure everybody, including the commissioner and the director of CSIS, etc., was up to speed. The provinces were immediately notified of what was going on. The provinces then—and I was just talking to our colleagues in British Columbia last week—very quickly notified their transportation facilities and transit companies, etc., throughout the Lower Mainland in British Columbia to make sure they had the information they needed, so they knew the risk to Canada from the bombings.