Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do you mean the private citizen that would be—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That person could take it upon themselves to do that. That said, you can imagine that person would be gathering information on different individuals who signed the paper petition. That could raise other questions regarding the nature of the information gathered and would remove f

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's always the difficulty with paper petitions. You need the person to have either signed or started the petition; you need to follow the process in the House. By doing what is proposed here, which is essentially to put the content of a petition on the website, have it transla

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think what is behind your question is this: how do we make available information that is tabled in the House, either paper responses to paper petitions, other responses, or government responses to committee reports, or agencies that table a report in the House through a ministe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When the petitioner creates the account and identifies some supporters, they can identify up to 10 individuals. We're not that aware of how they interact with those individuals beforehand, but clearly, individuals are identified. In some cases people just identify five, and maybe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a good indication that things are problematic. I don't think it's a big problem—I'm just checking with Jeremy on that. It's not a big problem when, let's say, you put 10 names there. It's usually not an issue then. It's really when you only put five and the email address o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's the same verification process as for regular petitioners. We just verify that they are eligible. It's not exactly the same as the information being shared regarding the petitioner. It's a bit more for a petitioner.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Once the government has responded to the petition, its response is tabled in the House and is available for consultation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Clearly, the process that has been followed for e-petitions has been much easier to establish because, from the beginning, you have a sense of who, through the email addresses, has signed the petition. We have provided from the beginning an indication to those individuals, first,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's essentially a technical question, so whether you add two or four will not make a difference. The costs associated with it would be exactly the same.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's really up to the members of the committee to determine how that number of days could be determined or identified. Among those things, it would be for the member to identify the number of days that would be required, or for the petitioner to determine how many days could be u

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's an interesting question. You could probably argue that because of the fact the individual is performing duties directly related to House business, that would be directly protected by parliamentary privilege. In the same way, when this committee travels, if it is outside t