Evidence of meeting #14 for Public Safety and National Security in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was protest.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Interim Chief, Ottawa Police Service
Again, the protest organizers were extremely difficult to identify because it was a very fractured, frayed group of people.
Interim Chief, Ottawa Police Service
Our police liaison team members did an amazing job in contacting as many different people that had identified themselves as organizers to start discussions....
NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
I have a point of order, Chair.
Just quickly, I was wondering, through you, if you could invite our witnesses to provide written briefs. They may not have been able to fully develop some of their answers during testimony, and I think written briefs from both departments would aid our committee in getting a fulsome picture of this.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
Sure. I can make that request.
I want to thank the witnesses for coming to appear in front of this committee at a very difficult time. The request has been made that—
Liberal
Ron McKinnon Liberal Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC
I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. I'm sorry to interrupt.
During the course of this meeting, Mr. Lloyd has tweeted that “Ottawa interim chief Bell...confirms that no firearms were found during [a] clearing of the Convoy protests”. That's not the testimony I heard. I believe that mis-characterizes Chief Bell's testimony and I would urge people to look at the actual testimony.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
We're not going to be debating tweets in front of the committee.
However, I will ask the witnesses to feel free to give us more information if they had insufficient time to answer these questions fully. I would encourage them to do that.
On behalf of the committee, and in fact on behalf of the Parliament of Canada, I want to thank the witnesses. I know how intense a time this has been for all of you. We appreciate you sharing your views and your perspectives for us. Thank you very much.
Members of the committee, we will now suspend for five minutes and we will return in camera. Thank you.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
