Declaration of Emergency committee  Absolutely. We did many inquiries in regard to the use of the Canadian Armed Forces—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Sorry?

Declaration of Emergency committee  We don't own tow trucks. If in fact we wanted to move the trucks from the area, we needed tow trucks to do part of our.... Tow trucks are a part of our equipment, but it's contracted out, so—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Well, in Coutts, we couldn't use tow trucks. They wouldn't come to our.... We asked them to come to assist us, but they would not. We looked to the military as well and, in the end, what ended up happening was that the Government of Alberta purchased some tow trucks, which was just at the onset of the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, because when we did the inquiries directly with them, they told us they didn't have the equipment necessary to remove such equipment and—

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, there was never a question of requesting the Emergencies Act. There was a question of—

Declaration of Emergency committee  No. We actually reached out to various police agencies when there was talk about some of the authorities that they were proposing, and of course we were consulted. We were the ones who would be using those authorities, so we were consulted to see if these would be of any use to police in the context of the “freedom convoy”.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm not sure, but I know there were two vehicles in the Edmonton area that could possibly do what we were looking for, but we couldn't get access to them for several days, and that was the only place in Canada, they told us, that they had such equipment.

Declaration of Emergency committee  The integrated command centre was established. The OPP, OPS and the RCMP created a planning cell in order to create a plan for enforcement action.

Declaration of Emergency committee  This was completely a different type of protest, where people were not leaving. Our police liaison teams were trying to motivate people to leave, because when we're dealing with a mass protest, it's all about reducing that footprint so that we can be as safe as we can with enforcement action.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, I did not, but what I can say is that the Emergencies Act did give us the tools that we needed—

Declaration of Emergency committee  —to get the job done quickly.

Declaration of Emergency committee  On the day that it was invoked.

Declaration of Emergency committee  There was lots of talk about it, but—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes. We started a planning cell to do the planning in and around February 12. That was when the cell got together to start planning for enforcement activity in the downtown core.