One of the points that were raised is that we don't know how long this pandemic will last. So we don't know how long everyone's parliamentary privilege will be violated. In fact, the right to vote, including against our party occasionally or freely on certain issues, is one of the parliamentary privileges. Not everything can be done through a block vote or by proxy. My understanding of the hybrid formula is that only members on site could exercise that parliamentary privilege, and those who remain in remote regions could not.
I want to remind you that our recommendation says that this would require a secure electronic voting system, as we will not recommend that just any voting system be used. I think this would fall under the NPD 3 recommendation, whereby any new way to proceed would first be approved by recognized parties before the voting method in the House is changed. Once we have found an adequate voting system, the recognized parties would need to give their consent.
It seems to me that there is still a process leading to the implementation of a new secure voting method. So I don't see why all members could not fully exercise their parliamentary privileges.