Declaration of Emergency committee  No.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I think the process was mostly—and I think others have talked about this—that we had a group of deputy ministers who met regularly and who shared information. That's the method through which most of that information came to me, anyway.

Declaration of Emergency committee  It's difficult to know what the emergency is going to be about. It could be any kind of situation. The idea behind “may” would be to provide much discretion to the government to come up with the measures that would fit the particular emergency they wanted to address.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I think we met almost daily and we got information daily. We adjusted based on the information that we had. We obviously didn't draft these things in a few minutes. We anticipated the potential of the government deciding to do that. We worked with the RCMP and our legal advisers and drafters, and we tried to sort out what would be helpful in coming up with orders.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I think what we're hoping to do with this collection of documents that we're pulling together to respond to the motion is to provide a bit of that picture. It will be consistent with what's in that section 58 report. I don't think you'll see something that says, “We think this might happen but we put an X on it.”

Declaration of Emergency committee  That is what I said, yes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Because I've been involved in all of the orders related to the Emergencies Act.

Declaration of Emergency committee  As I said, I participated in meetings with client departments throughout this, from mid-February—

Declaration of Emergency committee  As I said, we're going to be pulling documents together we can provide in order to respond to the motion that—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Excuse me...?

Declaration of Emergency committee  We'll see. I think we have to assemble them and go through them and see which ones we can produce without breaching some laws. Our hope is that by the end of the month we'll be able to pull those together.

Declaration of Emergency committee  The government summarized that information in the document, so I would refer you to that—

Declaration of Emergency committee  As I said, I participated in discussions that included Commissioner Lucki and others leading up to this. I received oral briefings of what was happening on the ground.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Notes were undoubtedly taken. Notes were taken. I took my own notes of—

Declaration of Emergency committee  We took note of the committee's request for documents. There are some documents that are being prepared to be shared with the committee in response to the motion, and—