Declaration of Emergency committee  No.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We weren't specific about the things they could pursue. We were asking what tools they would have available in existing legislation or regulations that could help us.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I can't speculate that it would be, but it would have helped.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We also asked them for anything else they could do—

Declaration of Emergency committee  The province came back with nothing. The federal government didn't have jurisdiction over local trucking, so they couldn't do anything.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, but everything that has just been said is completely incorrect. I don't agree with any of it. Mr. Brookson is director of PPS. His people were sitting in the national capital regional command centre. His people are on Intersect, which is an Ottawa police-l

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, it was exactly as I answered earlier. There aren't clear protocols between the city and federal institutions for the national capital, but there are protocols between police, the parliamentary precinct, RCMP and OPP. That's where the protocols are, and they're strong, but th

Declaration of Emergency committee  I don't recall when it was, because I don't have it in front of me. It would have been around the second weekend, I would imagine, of the protests. It was in that area. There were some councillors who were interested in pursuing that. They were frustrated. I raised the issue to

Declaration of Emergency committee  No. It was a conversation.

Declaration of Emergency committee  What was evident and something that we haven't had to deal with necessarily in the past.... The only other time I can remember is after the shooting of Corporal Cirillo. There is no memorandum of understanding between the federal government and the City of Ottawa in the federal

Declaration of Emergency committee  Mr. Chair, we had all of our emergency personnel, obviously, working. We had firefighters, paramedics and our bylaw officers who still had to get in there. We had our traffic people, public works people.... We still had snowplow operators.... All of our services were still trying

Declaration of Emergency committee  I think that the assumptions that were made leading into the first weekend were that it was within the usual paradigm of the hundreds of protests we have every year in the city of Ottawa and that the advanced planning that would have been required—to some of the other questions w

Declaration of Emergency committee  To action....

Declaration of Emergency committee  I have not.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We had words of encouragement, but nothing beyond that.