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

NATALIA RODRIGUEZ: And you can have the 7 timeline of events as -- yeah, and that is the institution 8 report of the City of Ottawa with respect to the timeline of 9 events; correct? 10 MAYOR JIM WATSON: Yes. [...] When the weekends started to create this very 16 tense situation where people were coming in from all over the 17 region, and in fact, different parts of the country to come and 18 support the protestors, and that's where the havoc and the chaos 19 was created in our communities. [...] Is that right? 19 MAYOR JIM WATSON: No, I -- as I said, I can't 20 direct the police, but certainly I asked the questions, you 21 know, "What is the game plan to move forward?", and he -- the 22 Chief said that they're working on one, and I relayed that to 23 the Prime Minister. [...] And when you say you reiterated 22 the City’s call for additional resources, when did you make the 23 original call for resources? Because this is February 3rd and 24 you're referring to reiterating the call for resources, are you 25 referring to the 31st call with the Prime Minister, or was there 26 another call for resources between the 31st and February 3rd? 27 MAYOR JIM WATSON: Well, the very. [...] NATALIA RODRIGUEZ: And why was this done on 9 February 6th? What was the tipping point or the reason why it 10 was necessary at this point in time? 11 MAYOR JIM WATSON: Well there were a lot of 12 people asking, up to that point, including Members of Council, 13 and members of the public, and members of the media, why didn’t 14 we declare a State of Emergency on the first weekend? 15 There’s a lit.