Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just want to bring up the point that as a former police officer, being in a policing role for 28 years, I have been in operations like this in regard to protesters. I was also part of the public order unit for many years. I stood on the front line in situations like this. I have first-hand experience.
When there is an operation going on, an incident command officer takes charge of the whole thing. Their job is to work the incident at that point. They are so preoccupied with the safety of the citizens, with the safety of the officers on the front line, that to be able to come out and discuss matters of urgency or emergencies currently going on—that would be highly unlikely. When an operation is going on, I don't think they would discuss in public what they plan to do in terms of the operation.
It's about safety for the officers and safety for the citizens. For them to speak about something they plan to do in the future, about what's going to happen, or about the next step they're going to take—it would be highly unlikely that we'd get the full answer that as a committee we're looking for in terms of what's happening on the ground.
In my humble opinion, hopefully we can extend it, but if we want to bring them in next week, we won't get the full answer we're looking for in terms of that.
That's my opinion on this. Thank you.