Public Hearing Audience publique - Commissioner / Commissaire The Honourable / L’honorable

Commissioner, is that 5 Commission Counsel did have access to all of the documents, and 6 indeed, the parties will notice that the documents, including 7 those that just went up on the party database over the weekend, 8 that some of which are included in our list of documents for the 9 examination of this panel, and so we are prepared to proceed 10 confident that we have had a thorough review of t. [...] My responsibility throughout from the beginning was 22 to ensure that the Commissioner had the right information to 23 brief up at the various briefings at the DM level, at the 24 Ministerial level at the ERC and the coordination of resources 25 from across the country that needed to be brought in, I had a 26 team looking after that. [...] Could you just 8 describe how that works for the RCMP and how in some of the 9 contexts it came to bear on the management of the convoy? 10 D/COMM MICHAEL DUHEME: Yeah, the gold, silver, 11 bronze structure, and it's well explained in the report, but 12 basically, the gold structure is really providing the strategic 13 direction to manage the operation. [...] Now coming to 10 the RCMP federal policing mandate, this is the first -- just to 11 help you answer the question in context, the first of a series 12 of questions I have to try to describe what the RCMP does with 13 all of those 5,000 personnel in Ottawa compared to what it does 14 with the personnel it has in the provinces where it is police of 15 jurisdiction under contract to the provincial gov. [...] GORDON CAMERON: And if you can describe it, 25 we might come to some particulars as it relates to specific 26 incidents, but generally speaking, what was the impact of the 27 arrival in Ottawa of the convoy; what was the impact of that on 28 the protective mandate of the RCMP? INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC.