Declaration of Emergency committee  No. My sense was that.... Just to be clear to the committee, and I've expressed this to the policing partners, the threshold for me is much lower at maintaining security within the precinct. What I was seeing happening on Wellington Street and the massive police operation to cle

Declaration of Emergency committee  Outside of February 17, 18 and 19, I didn't have the same level of concern about shutting it down and blocking it.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, to be clear, the precinct is inside buildings—Parliament Hill—and that's it, so sidewalks, Wellington Street, any of the side streets...are not part of the precinct.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, yes.

Declaration of Emergency committee  It was an increase of roughly 30%.

Declaration of Emergency committee  That would have been throughout.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, we took steps. Again, I think I mentioned earlier the importance of the tabletop—the TT exercise and framework—that the services put in place. That same January, we commenced tabletop exercises with our partners, which was inclusive of the Ottawa Police Service.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, no, I did not.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair. During times of heightened security measures there are going to be some heightened restrictions. My apologies if there was any sort of element of you feeling that you were blocked from coming to work. The service does what it can in doing what it needs to

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, for me, it's just not knowing what's in those vehicles that concerns me, without needing to have a sense of the specificity. My request in previous testimony was that it's not a specialty of the service itself to do the checking of what vehicles are. That

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, the security threat of that day was the commencement of the police operation that was going to walk right down Wellington Street. I had hoped that it would have been cleared prior to February 18, on the evening of February 17, but for reasons unknown to me

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I'm not aware of any involvement by either policing—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I do, Senator.

Declaration of Emergency committee  As it was being provided to me, keeping me abreast as to what the.... It was not the service, to be clear. It was not the service being part of the creation of the tactical response, but when that was put in place, it was giving us an FYI. A case in point is keeping us abreast w

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, no, Senator.