Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I also think that outside counsel may be needed. Our role and our current work are similar to the role and work of a commission of inquiry. However, in the case of commissions of inquiry, counsel always provides advice to the commissioners in the course of

Declaration of Emergency committee  Excuse me, Mr. Chair. If I may, I would like to speak.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Under the rules that we adopted last week with respect to speaking turns, I don't want us to get to the end of the hour and a half and have to cut short the second round of questions from senators. In the normal scenario of testimony that is kept to a certain time frame, I wonde

Declaration of Emergency committee  Two hours for each is fine with me.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes. I'd like to have some information.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I would like to get some information from the clerk. I'm looking for the information in last week's notes, and I can't find it. I know we had discussed the speaking time for each of the committee members, and the second round. If I remember correctly, at the end of the second r

Declaration of Emergency committee  That's right.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, that's perfect. That's what I was worried about.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Mr. Chair, I also asked for the floor.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I want to speak to the amendment, if I may.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I was looking at both the main proposal and the amendment, and I was putting it in the context of having already heard from ministers. We are currently planning to hear from officials and law enforcement agencies for several days. When are we going to hear from the advocacy orga

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm more comfortable if the discussions are done that way. However, we'll have to think about interspersing witnesses who were affected by the events.

Declaration of Emergency committee  All right. I think that sums it up nicely. Thank you. I have a second point. We have a mandate to review the exercise of powers. There are many ways to do that. We can ask whether powers were exercised unreasonably or for inappropriate purposes, for example. I also understand t

Declaration of Emergency committee  We still need to review those powers to determine if they were appropriate or not. If the powers were taken on illegally, that may mean they were exercised inappropriately.

Declaration of Emergency committee  However, determining the legal basis for the exercise of powers is part of reviewing the exercise of those powers, is it not? In other words, the authority to take on the powers and the manner in which the powers are exercised are part and parcel of the exercise of powers.