—being here in person. We really appreciate your doing that. It means a lot.
I'm going to read you two quotes from your minister: “At the recommendation of police, we invoked the Emergencies Act to protect Canadians”. That's quote number one. Quote number two is, “the invocation of the Emergencies Act...was only put forward after police officials told us they needed this special power”.
We have heard from police officials at this committee and at other committees in this Parliament. To date, none of them have indicated that they asked for the invocation of the Emergencies Act, so who asked for it?