Public Safety committee  Everything was changing hourly. Those weapons were seized. Things changed so that we could release certain points of information. We were continually adding information at each and every press conference we did, so to ask if they were going to be part and parcel of another media

Public Safety committee  No, I was assuming that eventually that would be part of a media release, so it was not an unusual request to be asking that question, because I was given the information, thinking that, in a couple of days, that would be part of a future media release. I was simply giving them t

Public Safety committee  It's about the principle of police independence, and it's about exercising police powers and making decisions in the operational realm. But, providing it's appropriate, I feel, for government and police to exchange information to provide situational awareness on events.... But if

Public Safety committee  Absolutely not. If anybody is more conscious of that, it's Minister Blair, especially as a former police officer.

Public Safety committee  First of all, as commissioner, I have no qualms about saying, “We are entering an area of direction”. I'm prepared to leave a meeting. Also, like I said, any of the information that I'm providing is not my information. I go back to the team that holds the information and we have

Public Safety committee  Anything that prevents me from coming back to this committee to answer these questions would be welcome.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I think miscommunication is at the heart of many issues.

Public Safety committee  It wasn't a meeting. It was just a question, I think, from his chief of staff saying—

Public Safety committee  Normally my calendar tells me everything I do each and every day. Unfortunately, I was by myself. Because of COVID, everybody was working from home.

Public Safety committee  I said the minister's office.

Public Safety committee  It would be the chief of staff.

Public Safety committee  At that point in time, I wasn't talking very often to the minister. It was more with his office.

Public Safety committee  I don't have that in my records. I know that I was speaking with that office fairly regularly about this event, as there were a couple of other things going on as well outside of the event.

Public Safety committee  The first three to five days, yes.

Public Safety committee  We didn't physically meet very often because of COVID.