Declaration of Emergency committee  —and what tools you would need.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Why can't we get into the details, Commissioner, sorry?

Declaration of Emergency committee  At any time, did you recommend that anyone apply for an injunction to try to utilize the tools that an injunction would give you in relation to the protest here in downtown Ottawa?

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. Was the event that was occurring in downtown Ottawa and continuing considered a national security threat by you?

Declaration of Emergency committee  But the Department of Justice website actually identifies the RCMP as the law enforcement agency responsible for national security in Canada. Did you consider it a national security threat, and if you did, did you express that to the Minister of Public Safety? If so, was there an

Declaration of Emergency committee  I understand that, but I think you know that in my previous role, I used hundreds of RCMP officers many times. In fact, I remember swearing them in in the basement of our building. And I certainly didn't always go to the OPP—although the commissioner who's sitting at the front he

Declaration of Emergency committee  Can you advise me about whether or not you could have removed the occupation without the invocation of the Emergencies Act, in Ottawa?

Declaration of Emergency committee  I don't want to hear what happened as a result, though, because I only have about 30 seconds left. Could you have removed them without the invocation?

Declaration of Emergency committee  It wasn't hypothetical; it was real. You would have had a plan. Could you have removed that occupation without the Emergencies Act? I'll go back to what Senator Harder said. If you could not have, then it was a failure of policing, which might mean that you needed to invoke the

Declaration of Emergency committee  But there was a joint command centre prior to the invocation, right?

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much, Commissioner.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for making themselves available. Commissioner Lucki, we've heard multiple times from ministers and others that the Emergencies Act and the tools provided were specifically requested by police leadership. As a law e

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt. So you never asked for it. Do you know of any other police leadership who asked specifically the government for its invocation?

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you, Commissioner. You mentioned earlier—and we've heard it repeated by others—tow trucks as an example of one of the reasons or rationales for the act's invocation. Was consideration given to use aid to the civil power so that you could actually use military tow trucks an

Declaration of Emergency committee  Did you apply for aid to the civil power?