Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, Mr. Fergus, I appreciate the question, but I can't speak on behalf of law enforcement as to what tools they think they would need when dealing with any sort of police matter.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, the only extra nuance, through you, Madam Chair, would be that there was no benefit whatsoever in the invocation of the Emergencies Act for the service. There were no additional powers provided through that, again, simply because we're not a policing organization.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, if I understand your question correctly, Mr. Fergus, obviously the assessment analysis as to what exactly that needs to be is, I think, to come. I'm waiting for some of that work to be completed. Again, one of the authorities that I have is shutting do

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I can't deliver a mandate if I'm on a linear path to anything, and I ensure that the response is there to meet the threat when it appears. We're talking about a different realm in terms of a pure threat to Parliament, so it's tough for me to suggest how

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, to Mr. Fergus, yes. I've indicated previously and in my opening remarks that the solution to this is not hardening strategy. It is important in providing a security fabric over the precinct, but that alone is not going to get us to where we need to be. T

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, this is where it's critically important that the service has the partners that it has. We talk about being an intelligence-led organization in order to serve the parliamentary community, and that's not going to change moving forward. The advance notice w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I'm extremely comfortable and pleased with the discussions that are currently under way with the parliamentary community on finding some other.... It can't be dealt with from a single lane. This is a multi-faceted approach to increasing the security of t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, as the teams make preparations.... I've received two briefings. There will be a briefing tomorrow afternoon for the parliamentary community, to bring them through our preparations for securing the precinct for July 1. I apologize. I'm not going to get i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I think it's important to note what today is. It is National Indigenous Peoples Day. Again, I go back to our plenary unit, which does an amazing level of outreach. Ms. Blaney, I can assure you that when our indigenous family members are coming to the pr

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, if there are complaints from anybody—indigenous family members or others—it's critically important that those complaints come to the office of the director of the service, so they can be dealt with as swiftly as possible.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, again, the occupation outside of the precinct was the responsibility of the POJ lead. In fairness to Mr. Sloly's testimony, it's important to note that the sheer number of vehicles that were en route to Ottawa provided a small snippet of what the future

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, again, there will always be an element of an MP being off the precinct, so the facilitation of where the precinct is being proposed to be.... As I indicated earlier, the assessment and analysis haven't been completed as to what investment is going to be

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, the after action review is still ongoing within the service. I'm not comfortable speaking in the open to what some of those key lessons learned were, but down the road, whether it's in camera or whatever, I'd be more than willing to come back and express

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair to Mr. Gerretsen, I appreciate your question. I want to be clear that the decision to increase that fence site was not part of the policing response. It was—