Public Safety committee  In any legislation, if it affects policing, we're always.... Not only us, but all of the policing community under the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.... This would have been going on for a couple of years. It's no different from the cannabis legislation or online harms.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. It wasn't going to change anything in future dealings, and it wouldn't affect the integrity of any investigation either.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. In fact, at the beginning of that event, on behalf of the RCMP I called in the person who was overseeing the Mass Casualty Commission just to make sure that no mistake was ever repeated during that. With regard to the flow of information, for or an event like what h

Public Safety committee  I appreciate your perception, but your perception is incorrect.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely not.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely not.

Public Safety committee  I talked about gun legislation, because, if you recall, my very first media event was with Minister Blair. One-third of that was about Nova Scotia. The other two-thirds were actually about gun legislation. Obviously, that was in the news quite a bit. I was providing context for m

Public Safety committee  No. There was a lot of information going back and forth. What I will say is that it's important to note that there were a lot of requests of about when are we going to release the names of the victims, when are we going to release the locations of each and every deceased? There

Public Safety committee  There was no direction provided whatsoever.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, each and every day, and despite this event, this happens weekly, this happens daily. Obviously in preparation for question period we get lots of questions as well, but in a major event like this, it's not unusual for us to provide information. We get questions for cla

Public Safety committee  Yes, there was a request.

Public Safety committee  I believe so, yes.

Public Safety committee  That's incorrect. The information was not to share the information. It was simply a question about whether, in fact, the information in that press conference would include information about the weapons.

Public Safety committee  Whether it would be...yes.

Public Safety committee  First and foremost, I didn't deal a lot with the minister directly. I did at the beginning of the event, but I dealt more so with various people on his staff, as well as the deputy minister of Public Safety. There was a lot of back and forth. This was, as I said, a crazy time. T