Fisheries committee  If there were a continued population explosion, if the population continued on the trajectory that we have, would that have an impact on fish stocks, do you think?

Government Business No. 16—Proceedings on Bill C‑11  McCullough noted the following, which really hit home when I heard his testimony: The tremendous success and even worldwide fame of many Canadian YouTubers in the absence of government regulation should invite questions about the necessity of Bill C-11. An unregulated YouTube has been a 17-year experiment, and the result has been an explosion of popular Canadian content produced by Canadians of every imaginable demographic....it is important to understand that it is simply impossible to regulate a platform like YouTube without also regulating creator content.

Health committee  One of the points with this is to try to identify therapeutics early on with things that we never had in the early days, for example, with HIV infections. There has been an explosion in pharma with anti-inflammatories and immunomodulatory drugs, and even antivirals. You can envision, even though the antivirals that exist today don't necessarily have a great impact in shortening the duration of disease—the COVID infection, that is—they could be instrumental in reducing the inflammatory responses that are likely the triggers for long-term COVID in general, but, in particular, in reducing early-onset dementia and the diseases I described earlier.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I was saying earlier that the government decided to proceed with a freeze that did not take effect immediately, but rather 30 working days after the announcement. This resulted in an explosion in handgun sales across the country. It appears that the government realized this today. It tried to move a motion at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security to refer the regulations directly to the House to speed up the process.

Criminal Code  It seems to me that the government did not anticipate the fact that these regulations, which would not come into force immediately, would lead to a spike or an explosion in handgun sales in the country. Now that the government has realized this, it is trying to put out the fire and get the regulations through more quickly, for example by moving a motion in the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security today and perhaps adopting a motion in the House later to speed up the process, which I think is good.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm going to mention one last factor relating to security. In previous years, there were concerns about explosives being shipped on board rail vehicles. However, what we have seen a lot of in recent years is the use of trucks as rams. That is where security becomes a major issue. It is easier to provide security for a vehicle or a streetcar line than for the thousands of vehicles that drive by the parliamentary precinct.

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  It was grouped with IT and communications, signal intelligence, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive detection and response capabilities. All of these had just a $4.6-billion investment over 20 years out of about $164 billion in proposed spending. We should stop saying threats involving guns and bullets or ships and fighter planes from foreigners invading our land and sea are the only responsibility of the Canadian Armed Forces; or that cybersecurity threats are the responsibility of the Communications Security Establishment alone; or that biological threats should be handled by the Public health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces role is limited to providing a few medics; or that threats posed by misinformation and disinformation are the responsibility of maybe Canadian Heritage or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; or that the threat from domestic terrorism is the responsibility of the RCMP, CSIS and local law enforcement agencies.

Public Safety committee  In your excellent work on this issue of domestic security, I'm very concerned about electromagnetic pulses. This might be an open fact, but I want your opinion. A nuclear explosion in the atmosphere can have very little kinetic effect on the ground but it could have a devastating effect on our electronics. Would this be considered a violation of article 5 and require a NATO response?

National Defence committee  Any of the Ukrainians inside the country who are battling, they attribute their successes to the training that our troops gave them, but my question is about whether or not our troops are adequately protected. Do they have, for example, the iodine pills should there be a launch, an explosion or even an accidental hitting of the top of a nuclear facility, just like nearly happened yesterday?

Canadian Heritage committee  The Broadcasting Act was enacted long before the Internet became a dominant platform for the delivery of music. Online streaming has experienced explosive growth in recent years, but Canadian songwriters and composers are not benefiting from that growth. This inequity is due in part to the fact that the streaming services that have benefited greatly from operating in Canada are not required to contribute to Canadian culture.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That said, we are still establishing new ways of doing things so that there is, in advance, a lead or a commanding officer. I have a very simple question for you. We knew in advance that trucks, possibly with explosives, would stop and not move. How is it that the Ottawa police, who had a duty to enforce regulations, took so long to set up a command post or do anything? They had means at their disposal, like issuing tickets or towing trucks.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Prime Minister's itinerary is very public. A truck parked on the corner of O'Connor and Wellington with explosives in it on a Wednesday at 2:30 would technically wipe out West Block, including all parliamentarians, so the question of whether or not Wellington should remain open to vehicular traffic is in my view not even a question.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Probably within 24 to 72 hours of that I would have received some sort of a briefing note. At that time, we were actually dealing with the horrific death of multiple people in an explosion here in Ottawa. That was my primary concern at that point. I started to receive material intelligence briefings from federal and provincial bodies during that week in the buildup to the arrival on the weekend of the 26th, 27th and 28th, but at no point were we given a full understanding of the totality of the threats and the volatility that we would be experiencing over the subsequent weeks.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Were you aware if the RCMP provided such services or had done non-invasive checks—for lack of better words—for explosives?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through the chair, was there a request from the Ottawa Police Service or the PPS to provide technical capacity for non-invasive checking, non-invasive review, for explosives detection in the trucks that had been parked?