Declaration of Emergency committee  That's the end of your time, Senator Patterson. Thank you very much. May I take this opportunity to thank our guests for joining us? I know it's been a long two hours, but we're grateful for your appearance before us. We thank you, all, for coming. Colleagues, it will be about

Declaration of Emergency committee  Senator Carignan, your time is up.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Senator Carignan, your time is up.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We're moving to Senator Harder.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Are you finished, Senator Harder? We'll move to Senator Patterson.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm aware of that.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Okay. In terms of your thoughts going forward, what changes would you make in terms of that table? We were quite interested here that the person in charge of emergency at the City of Ottawa didn't know who the deputy minister of public safety was, and they'd never met. Given th

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you. We'll move to Senator Carignan, followed by Senator Harder.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Your time is up, Mr. Green.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Mr. Green, can you take the chair?

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm going to follow up on Mr. Green's question, and I would like you to be as brief as you can. From the perspective of talking about violent extremism, and I would say this from a policing perspective as well, it looks at all types of groups. In fact, given the experience of J

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. I'm going to swing to a different topic, then, on the role of the province. You alluded to this, Ms. Thomas, and I want to make sure we're very clear on what participation you got from the province. I think it's quite clear that there was little involvement.

Declaration of Emergency committee  They would be for internal security versus external, which is what you would work on.

Declaration of Emergency committee  From this committee's perspective, would there be a benefit in terms of having a counterpart you could speak to who would be more on what I would consider an operational level and not a political level? Would that make the role easier, given the types of issues you're dealing wit

Declaration of Emergency committee  I know who he is.