Declaration of Emergency committee  To be clear, even before the arrival of the main convoys here in the city, we were receiving additional resources. Those resources ebbed and flowed, depending on pressures across the country and the province. After the February 7 request, we then met with our main partners, the OPP and the RCMP.

Declaration of Emergency committee  That was mission critical for me. I suspect it was even after I left office.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Sure.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I may have missed the question in there. I'm sorry, sir.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I won't presume to speak for any other organization, including the Prime Minister's Office. As a standard practice, police liaison teams will negotiate with any demonstrator coming into the city for any reason to try to align that as much as possible to good public safety outcomes using best practices.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We were focused on providing a safe outcome for what turned out to be an unprecedented, paradigm-shifting event. There were so many impacts that happened, good and bad. I couldn't begin to list them for you, sir. I apologize.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I haven't read the declaration in any detail. I take you at your word that you are reading from the document.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Again, I don't have an independent recollection of the document, so I will take you at your word.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Intelligence came to me in the middle of this that there were vulnerable people living in and around the red zone areas and other parts of the theatre. That significantly increased the risk factors we were dealing with.

Declaration of Emergency committee  There was a large range of other high-risk factors. For me, that was one of the top high-risk factors, yes, sir.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Removing vulnerable persons from a theatre like that was a critically important aspect.

Declaration of Emergency committee  That was intelligence provided to me throughout the course of what took place here in the city of Ottawa and intelligence provided to me from other locations, including Coutts, Alberta, through Commissioner Lucki.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm not sure what the term “table” means.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Okay. It is not a completed document, just to be clear. It is still very much a draft document, but I will provide what I have in draft for the committee to consider.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Just to be clear, I took no part and, to my knowledge, none of my officers took any part in the actual negotiations. I understood in principle that there were negotiations to remove vehicles from the red zone area and the downtown core area, particularly in the residential areas, to other areas of the city or outside the city.