Declaration of Emergency committee  When I'm providing information within cabinet, I'm bound by the rules of cabinet.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Not at all.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm sure.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  The first weekend, our role was part of our federal mandate, which is the protection of parliamentarians and the Prime Minister. We work with the parliamentary precinct and we protect the parliamentary precinct, which includes the Senate and the Parliament. Because we have other resources located within the city of Ottawa, we also provided frontline assistance to Ottawa Police Service as well as other specialized resources.

Declaration of Emergency committee  What I can—

Declaration of Emergency committee  It's really not up to me to speak to hypotheticals or speculate—

Declaration of Emergency committee  When we look at a national security threat, we look at it in regard to criminal.... Of course, there are a number of organizations with a mandate in this area, such as CSIS. But although most of the people participating in Ottawa protests were motivated by a desire to end that COVID-related type of mandate, we assessed that some of the ideologically motivated extremists were probably present and attempting, really, to leverage the protest and its high profile for their own purposes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, because we aren't the police of jurisdiction, and if the Ottawa Police Service needed additional resources, they were to go to the Ontario Provincial Police, as per Ontario's Policing Act.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Absolutely. For any request of resources they made, we fulfilled those requests.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No. It's very speculative because we weren't the police of jurisdiction, so I don't have all of the intimate details of what was known and what wasn't known—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, absolutely. I can say that we did actually successfully conclude protests across the country without the invocation of the Emergencies Act, but it was a much different situation.

Declaration of Emergency committee  From the RCMP perspective, we're not in a position to speak about the legal threshold. That wasn't part of our responsibilities.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes.