Declaration of Emergency committee  I can't agree with this either. My perspective would be, if I felt the questions of the RCMP weren't appropriate, I'd call them back and try this one more time. There were many witnesses whose responses I haven't been ecstatic about. We might be here all night holding people in

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, I don't even know anymore. My perspective is, I thought we were saying we would have seven days to provide them with questions. I don't know that we set a time limit for when they would provide them back. I'm still a little bit concerned about having a limit on the number

Declaration of Emergency committee  There's a former Liberal looking for more staff.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, no. This is after the evidence.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'm in a not dissimilar place. I think this will be a new bible that we'll be writing if we do this, particularly as to the types of questions we want to ask. I do think we missed some opportunities with our last witnesses. I felt that I was often left with more questions than

Declaration of Emergency committee  I almost promise this is the last time, Mr. Chair. If nothing else, I would like to actually have a chance over the next two weeks to go through the list of witnesses we've had and the material we've had, because—I have to be honest—I can think of maybe only two witnesses for wh

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'd like to look into the whites of their eyes when I'm reading their brief rather than just read a brief. I think we need to be able to debate and ask questions. I've seen the witnesses we've had to date and I don't think I would have accepted just a brief from any of those witn

Declaration of Emergency committee  Mr. Chair, if I could, I'd like bring forward a quick motion so that we could have a replacement for Senator Boniface. Everybody has agreed with me verbally on this. I would like to move that at any point when Senator Boniface would have had an opportunity to ask questions this

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. I'll quickly repeat my previous question that had no time for a response. The province also invoked their emergency act. Can you tell us what was missing from their legislation that required the invocation of the federal legislation? Thank you very much.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you for that. To be fair though, our job is to make recommendations, I would hope, at the end. Those recommendations could be for the city, the province, and whether or not they accept them is a different story. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Declaration of Emergency committee  But to be fair, I think we are passing judgment. We've heard.... I think Senator Harder views it as “a failure of policing”, and I think everybody would agree that it was a failure of policing—unless our plan was to be where we were. So I think we are passing judgment, and the t

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I have one more quick question, albeit it may require a longer answer. Obviously, the province had already invoked their emergency act. Obviously, there is something missing provincially in their legislation that did not help or assist the police in bringing the blockade to an e

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thanks.