Evidence of meeting #28 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was security.

A recording is available from Parliament.

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MPs speaking

Also speaking

Audrey O'Brien  Clerk of the House of Commons
Louis Bard  Chief Information Officer, House of Commons
Kevin Vickers  Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons

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Chief Information Officer, House of Commons

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Conservative

Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON

Okay. Thank you very much.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Great.

I thank you all. And I thank you for the respectfulness of the questions today and how we didn't wander into what should not be said in public session.

Thank you very much. It was a great first start. I thank you for starting us off on this mission. As you may have heard, we're not quite sure where it's going next, but we have some other witnesses in mind, and we'll move there.

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Clerk of the House of Commons

Audrey O'Brien

Mr. Chair, I understand from the Sergeant-at-Arms, in his everlasting role of monitoring the latest developments, that there was something posted on Twitter that allowed that I was doing okay testifying before this committee, but that I might be confusing “Anonymous” with a group that is “LulzSec”.

The reason I don't even try to pronounce this is because—

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NDP

Chris Charlton NDP Hamilton Mountain, ON

How come they get to ask questions?

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Clerk of the House of Commons

Audrey O'Brien

Well, I don't know whether I should be apologizing to these people, or whether they're bad people I don't care about.

I think it comes back to Mr. Zimmer's point that we all have a responsibility not to be taken in by websites that are having us inadvertently spread spam or malware around.

To the Twitter person who's been disappointed in me, I will try to do better.

Thank you very much.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

I believe you were incredible, so I'll just go with that.

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Clerk of the House of Commons

Audrey O'Brien

Thank you, Mr. Preston. It's always a pleasure.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Thank you.

Anything else for the good of the committee today?

Yes, Mr. Lukiwski.

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Conservative

Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK

I was just wondering if we want to take a few minutes on committee business, since we've had another point of privilege referred to us. Plus, my understanding is that Monsieur Ménard is making a statement about wanting to come before this committee as well.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Let's go in camera then, and we'll do committee business, with the will of the committee.

We'll suspend for a minute.

[Proceedings continue in camera]