Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. I apologize for coming in late. I'm not feeling great today. Thank you very much, Minister, for being here. We understand that there were no charges laid in relation to the freezing of assets. We also understand that the assets were released prior to any

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I thank you for that, Minister, because, really, that's what I'm referring to. On February 17 a Mareva injunction was brought forward by a local lawyer and a group of business people that did exactly the same thing the Emergencies Act did, so, certainly, it should have been consi

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. Thanks again for being here, Minister.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Freeze my time, please.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. My clock will start, I guess. Minister, again, thanks for being here. I was disappointed that you referred to this as an “adversarial” session, because I see it as fact-finding and within the legislation. That's just a statement, because I don't believe i

Declaration of Emergency committee  But to be fair, I think we are passing judgment. We've heard.... I think Senator Harder views it as “a failure of policing”, and I think everybody would agree that it was a failure of policing—unless our plan was to be where we were. So I think we are passing judgment, and the t

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I have one more quick question, albeit it may require a longer answer. Obviously, the province had already invoked their emergency act. Obviously, there is something missing provincially in their legislation that did not help or assist the police in bringing the blockade to an e

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thanks.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. I'll quickly repeat my previous question that had no time for a response. The province also invoked their emergency act. Can you tell us what was missing from their legislation that required the invocation of the federal legislation? Thank you very much.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you for that. To be fair though, our job is to make recommendations, I would hope, at the end. Those recommendations could be for the city, the province, and whether or not they accept them is a different story. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Mr. Chair, if I could, I'd like bring forward a quick motion so that we could have a replacement for Senator Boniface. Everybody has agreed with me verbally on this. I would like to move that at any point when Senator Boniface would have had an opportunity to ask questions this

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.