Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, that call came in just before noon. This was information that was received by our partners with respect to intelligence at the time that was suggesting a serious threat. My position has been clear in delivering this mandate and making—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would have been the RCMP and Ottawa Police Service. I'm sorry for that lack of clarification. I've always made it clear that my threshold for ensuring the protection and security of parliamentarians, staffers and the public is much lower than what would be found in the crimin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I leave that to the police force of jurisdiction to carry out their mandate of conducting that Criminal Code investigation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, no. I don't anticipate any involvement in that, nor would I seek to have involvement in that aspect.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, unfortunately, I don't have those costs. We definitely brought in additional resources to secure the precinct, but I don't have those numbers with me. My apologies.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I'm not going to speculate. I assess things on the information that's put in front of me. I work with exactly what's in front of me. I don't conject or add anything into it. I'll reiterate that I take very seriously my role and responsibility of ensurin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I can't get into the details as to the security and the information we had on hand at that time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I can speak to only my presence within the building. We did receive information, and rightfully so. We had members of Parliament who were trying to walk through crowds of individuals, which I had no situational awareness of. I was equally concerned about

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Are we talking specifically about the RCMP or Parliamentary—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Would you be kind enough to repeat that question?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll speak only to the protective mandate that the Parliamentary Protective Service holds. To be clear, the Parliamentary Protective Service is not a policing organization, so it does not have a policing mandate. The recruiting that the service undertakes is to ensure that all r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it would.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The specifics of the question speak to the request that was made just to have situational awareness on the vehicles that were parked out front on Wellington. The request for CBRNE sensing was made to the national division of the RCMP, not to Ottawa police officers. That's not th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and honourable members. I am pleased to be with you today to contribute to this committee's exchanges on matters of physical security. As the acting director of the Parliamentary Protection Service, I can assure you that being invited to take part in