Madam Speaker, I am a planner. When I saw the 70-kilometre-long convoy headed this way, I thought there would be no problem. I thought there would be a plan in place that would involve coordination between various officials. Then I realized that that was not necessarily the case.
On February 7, the federal government was asked to provide assistance, in the form of 1,800 police officers to support the city and law enforcement officials.
Could that have been done earlier, on both the city side and the government side, and should 1,800 police officers have been sent, rather than 275?