Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. I'm going to come back to the jurisdictional issues, because I want to have it very clear in my mind on two fronts: first from the blockades here in Ottawa from the time it went from a legal occupation to an illegal one, or from a protest to an occupation—i

Declaration of Emergency committee  I appreciate with Wellington.... The question I'm trying to get to is how the layers of an emergency order at the city, then the province—it's very unusual for a province to declare the emergency, given they have a provincial police service and their capacity to be able to assist

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. Thank you, Minister, for being here. I'd like to zero in somewhat in following up on the chair's question around the jurisdictional issues in policing. We're a convoluted country when it comes to policing, as we saw. We have the Ottawa police—I'm going to f

Declaration of Emergency committee  You want a quick-fire round.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Beatty, I just want to follow up on your comments, in which you referred to the layers of oversight necessary for the invocation of the act. I'm trying to get clarity, but I'm not sure I'm there yet, in terms of how you saw the complementary nature of th

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you.

Declaration of Emergency committee  When you did your consultations and you thought through some of the scenarios, were there consultations with the provinces? Was it taken into consideration what the provincial emergency legislation would have been across the country at the time?

Declaration of Emergency committee  With respect to section 63 and the inquiry, what did you anticipate the inquiry's broadest mandate would be? I know it says it in the act, but I'm wondering what was behind the thinking for the inquiry.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you, Mr. Beatty, for being here. I want to just step back, since you made considerable reference to the predecessor act, the War Measures Act. Can you give me some of the principles that you walked through in order to modernize, as you said,

Declaration of Emergency committee  However, if I look at regular Senate committees, from our perspective, anything in camera would have the same rules. I'm trying to understand the intentions behind the extra layer of the oath of secrecy in this act.

Declaration of Emergency committee  When you think about the committee's decision—and I understand it's the committee's decision—on the balance between what's public and what's in camera, the lens we'd be looking through is the type of information you intend to get from that particular witness or documents coming f

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you. That's the clarification I require.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you again, and thank you very much for answering various derivatives of similar questions. I want to pursue Mr. Fortin's comments, because I just want to be clear on subsection 62(3) and what the purpose of the oath of secrecy was, what it pertains to, and how that connect

Declaration of Emergency committee  For clarity, then, in the Inquiries Act, there will be certain specifics laid out that would guide the commissioner of the inquiry, or whatever title is provided.

Declaration of Emergency committee  If you look at the two sections, as you indicate, would it then be wise for this committee to start with going to the core of section 62, as you say, the “duties”, the “powers”, and looking at that, in order to not go back to the House and find out that we've gone way outside of