Declaration of Emergency committee  Not at all.

Declaration of Emergency committee  The plan—

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, not at all.

Declaration of Emergency committee  This was a very, very unique and fluid situation in Ottawa. It was a lot different from what we had seen across the country and it increased exponentially every weekend. Sometimes the numbers would go down, but there were core groups that refused to leave—

Declaration of Emergency committee  We were not.... It wasn't really the police that were.... We're not in the position to provide influence on the government as to when and where they invoke a certain act. For us, it was about keeping Canadians safe in Ottawa, and when they did bring in the act, it definitely provided us some authorities that helped reduce the footprint so that we could do a safer enforcement.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Well, I can tell you from an RCMP perspective, for example, we were in the midst of trying to enforce at Coutts, for example, and we could not enforce because we couldn't access any tow trucks. We weren't able to do the enforcement that we needed on the days that we wanted to enforce because we had no authorities to force the tow truck drivers to assist, and all of them refused to provide the service.

Declaration of Emergency committee  It's all of Ontario, yes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  That's that case in Quebec as well, as well as some of the municipalities within the provincial jurisdictions.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We have a federal mandate. I can pass it to my colleague, Mike Duheme, who's with federal policing, to explain that mandate.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, that's correct.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, there are municipal bylaws. There are provincial laws, as well as the Criminal Code and various other statutes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm not sure if there's a question there.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I will see what I can do to provide.... We—

Declaration of Emergency committee  I can only speak to what happened in RCMP jurisdictions, from an RCMP perspective—

Declaration of Emergency committee  —and the actions within our areas of jurisdiction.