Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. Yes, I most certainly do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, on first blush—this is my first time hearing about it—I would. I do believe that we needed an integrated response.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. I'm not sure I can tell you that one is more important than the other. They both go hand in hand. I think they both are exceptionally important for different reasons and similar reasons.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, that was not the intent of my ask. It was critical of Ottawa police at the time. I was critical of Ottawa police, mostly because I did not feel that their priority was residential neighbourhoods. I'm the city councillor, so my concern through all of this was the residents I r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you for that question. You will hear from one of our BIA directors, I believe later today. All of Bank Street ended up having to close its businesses. It was completely shut down. Bus shelters were taken over and made into makeshift coffee-serving spaces. There were f

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. I'm not able to do that. It was the mayor who invoked the Emergencies Act, and he has the full authority to do so. That was not an issue that was brought in front of council and discussed or debated on.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the federal invocation...?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I can't speak to that. Again, it was never brought to council, so I can't tell you that 23 members of council supported invoking the Emergencies Act.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. There has always been great opportunity, well before what happened in January and February. Again, it benefits the city and visitors to Parliament. It allows us to create a public space where people can wander. They don't have to look both ways for traffic. If there

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I don't believe that the closure of Wellington without the transfer of responsibility for security will necessarily enhance security, unless we're talking about security...cycling or walking and getting about. However, as I mentioned earlier, any time you have more people ga

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Chair, thank you for that question. It was the compounded result of the hundreds of daily threats of aggression that people felt in the downtown. If you went out and did your groceries and you happened to have a mask on, what happened was.... I'll be clear here. I'v

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I do believe that an integrated response is what was required during the January-February occupation. Obviously to have an integrated, comprehensive command post for security, for communications, would have meant that information flowed more freely. I did not see evidence that th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Chair, yes I did. I supported it when the City of Ottawa declared an emergency and also the province. By the time we arrived into the third week, it was clear that, without the much stronger measures that the Emergencies Act provided, as our police chief at the time

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I do support the tramway at grade running on Wellington and making that very important connection to Gatineau. One of the motions that I moved on the Wellington closure specifically talked about closing the street to vehicular traffic, and it very specifically noted that we

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Naqvi. Through you Chair, I often like to refer to these sorts of changes in streets as openings, rather than closures. I know I said closure, but we're really opening it to people. Having Wellington Street open to people would provide unique opportunities for e