Public Safety committee  Well, I believe that any time that we can keep Canadians safe in getting guns off the street, whatever weapons those are, that's a positive for Canadians, keeping Canadians safe, especially weapons that are designed to kill.... The legislation that happened on May 5, I didn't ev

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  First, there's a command triangle. The command triangle would go through any request if you were looking at, as in our case, wanting to be more proactive in getting the information out. If in fact it would compromise the integrity of an investigation, the command triangle would s

Public Safety committee  It wasn't really specifically about an OIC. It was about—

Public Safety committee  Yes. Legislation in general was looming. It was talked about every day in the media and in a media event I did with the minister. So obviously it was important. It was coming out. It was more about providing context to people as to how this information possibly would or could b

Public Safety committee  The line is so obvious. The line is not thin on this; the line is very thick. Asking for information is not providing direction. Requesting information or my providing information about the biggest mass casualty in Canadian history is not interference. It's part of my responsibil

Public Safety committee  Well, that was part of it. In that particular example, as I explained, I got a request regarding whether the guns were going to be included. I had also asked about the guns in previous conversations with my communications team.

Public Safety committee  We talked about various chunks of information. We talked about when the victims' names were going to be released, information on the different crime scenes, a chronology, information about the replica police car. We talked about being proactive. Every time we did a media release,

Public Safety committee  First, the question I got from the minister's office was whether the guns were to be released. The details of what was going to be released to the media in that media event were not discussed at all with Nova Scotia.

Public Safety committee  No, it was actually the idea of the people on the ground.

Public Safety committee  What happened, as I explained before, was that there were multiple types of information. When we could release information, it would be released.

Public Safety committee  No. There was no intention to release the details of that information we got. That was very detailed information. There was no intention to release it. All we were looking at, to be proactive, was the number of weapons and the general types of weapons. That's the information we w

Public Safety committee  It wouldn't,—

Public Safety committee  —and it was released.

Public Safety committee  No, they were released in the Q and A of that media event.