Questions about G8/G20 could mean summer committee meetings...

Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland is asking Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to answer a number of questions related to the "violent incidents surrounding the G8 and G20 summits over the weekend." In a letter to the minister, Holland asks:

1. Before the decision was made by your government to move the G20 summit to downtown Toronto, what security advice did the government consider?

2. Why did your government ignore the advice of the City of Toronto to hold the G20 at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds, which would have been easier to secure and would have caused fewer disruptions to business?

3. Who designed the G20 security plan?

4. Who approved the security plan and the detailed expenditures for it?

5. Who was ultimately giving security commands during the G20 summit?

6. Did anyone on the political side get involved - directly or through PCO (Privy Council Office) - in operational decisions during the summit?

Holland then says the National Security Committee will be getting to the bottom of these questions "over the coming weeks"...a pretty clear hint Holland believes there is enough support, at least among opposition parties, to convene the House of Commons committee over the summer months.