Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you, Mr. Bard, for being here.
In his testimony earlier today the Speaker indicated that in the distant past we had this mechanism with sheets of paper with numbers and so on.
Is there no way that a clerk of a committee could put some kind of a lock on a specific e-mail that would prevent that e-mail from being forwarded? I know we could still have the cutting and pasting and those kinds of things. It seems to me that the ease with which e-mails are sent has created a lot of problems. In fact, MPs around this table get much more communication today from their constituents because it's easy to hit “send”. We get a lot more volume.
Do you know if there are any studies being done in the technological world as to how we could make some of these documents more secure, similar to what we did with the numbering system with paper, so that it would be impossible to go forward?