Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  No. Anytime I was talking to the minister, it could have been just him and his chief of staff. I had no way of knowing for sure.

Public Safety committee  We didn't have MS Teams or video then.

Public Safety committee  I want to stress that I was not upset. First of all, upset and anger are not part of my DNA. I'm a fairly calm police officer. I always spoke in terms of how I felt. I felt disappointed and I felt frustrated with the flow of information over that past 10 days. Using the weapons

Public Safety committee  Anything's possible. There were also a lot of questions about when the names of the deceased were going to be released and when the information about the fire hall incident was going to be released. They could not talk about anything until we spoke about it at the media events, s

Public Safety committee  I didn't think at all. It was a question; I provided an answer. The minister is very conscious of.... First of all, he has an appetite for questions. He's a former police officer, so the who, what, where, why, when and how is almost part of his DNA. Any time there's an event, h

Public Safety committee  I think it could be a little bit of both. The thing is, if information could be released, then I would say, “Yes, it can be released” and I will ask them to do that. I will check and see if they can actually do that or if they cannot. The question is not interference. It's what

Public Safety committee  I'm a bit confused because there was no inquiry at the point when we were discussing that in a media release. Is that what you are referring to?

Public Safety committee  That's very difficult to say because there was no inquiry called at the time that we were talking about the release of the types of weapons that were seized. It wasn't until months later that this was released, and it wasn't released by ourselves.

Public Safety committee  It's hard to be hypothetical because it depends on what they're looking at in the inquiry. If they're not looking at weapons, then it might not compromise anything.

Public Safety committee  First of all, there was pressure for every single bit of information related to this incident: the number of deceased, where the deceased were located, who the deceased were, the background of the deceased, the perpetrator, the background of the perpetrator, the perpetrator's com

Public Safety committee  No, there is never.... Much of the information that I provide is a heads-up. I like to give government officials a heads-up before things are released in the media, and normally they will be released shortly thereafter. I am only the messenger in all of this. I am not the keepe

Public Safety committee  No, all of the conversations were about several things. The number of deceased was always changing. Where the deceased were located, the background of the perpetrator, the replica uniforms and the replica cars were others. There were so many different points. What was getting fr

Public Safety committee  Yes, there was.

Public Safety committee  I would like to say that I do have that kind of experience, but I don't. I have subject matter experts who assist me in the firearms regulations. Specifically, we have a lab with a full inventory of weapons, and the experts are far more adept at that than I am.