Declaration of Emergency committee  That's right.

Declaration of Emergency committee  It's important that we decouple being involved with the definement of the operation and how the operation was going to roll out. Obviously, when the tactical plan was being put together by the policing partners, they kept us informed as to what those plans were going to be. It wa

Declaration of Emergency committee  That came around February 17 and 18. My concern at that was understanding the route and how the policing operation was going to unfold. I was increasingly concerned about the next day, when Parliament was going to be sitting, the route of our parliamentarians' foot traffic into W

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, it's important that when that level of a police operation gets put in place, it's really something that then gets governed on its own. What I appreciated the most from our policing partners was the information that they shared with us, which then brought m

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, to Senator Boniface, yes, an after action review was conducted by the service. We're just finalizing the report on that, and we'll certainly be in a position to share those findings.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, thank you, Senator Boniface. Yes, the recommendations from the OPP review have all been addressed, and I think we're at 90% or thereabouts with implementation. We're trying to decouple.... A lot of those recommendations were steered towards the RCMP, but

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes. I had several conversations with the RCMP and two or three with the Ottawa Police Service. Two were directly with Chief Sloly during the occupation.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Prior to the arrival of the convoy, it was just a matter of coordinating the security measures that we had in place to ensure the safe arrival of the parliamentarians on the first Monday after the arrival... With Chief Sloly, they were conversations on where we might be with re

Declaration of Emergency committee  We had representation at the NCRCC. To be clear, the NCRCC was more for coordination and not the critical incident command. That was a piece that was created, I think, in the third week or two and a half weeks in, and that was with the OPP, the RCMP and the Ottawa Police Service.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, I was not.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, I wasn't. That was part of the discussions between the police service partners. The PPS was not involved.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Again, the policing operations were governed and driven out by the policing partners, not the service.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Today, there has been much advancement on the relationship between the service and the Ottawa Police Service, mainly due to the demobilization of the RCMP from Parliament Hill. I stand here today with the utmost confidence in that relationship with the Ottawa Police Service. As

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, to Senator Boniface, the last update I had from the Ottawa Police Service is that it's coming in the next few weeks. That said, there's another series of MOUs. The service does a great job at also setting in its tabletop exercise framework, and we're comm

Declaration of Emergency committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, to Senator Boniface, my objective here is not just through the demobilization of the RCMP. It was to ensure absolute sustainability of this service, and that's a priority that I'm not going to waver from.