Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses.
Dr. Goodman, you talked about the potential of flexibility and accessibility. On the one hand, you said that you agree that during a crisis it's a good mechanism to move to remote voting. The Constitution dictates that Ottawa is the seat of Parliament, so there are some challenges. You mentioned as well circumstances where an MP may have busy constituency schedules, the issue of maternity leave and the other examples you gave.
However, there are circumstances where members, for example, could use that as a reason not to be in Ottawa, and there may be situations where they do have a busy constituency schedule and need to be back in their ridings and not come to Ottawa. It could happen when there's a close election and they don't want to be in Ottawa, and they would use remote voting as a mechanism to not be back in Ottawa. There could be situations where an MP is facing, for example, very serious criminal charges and doesn't want to face the scrutiny of the parliamentary press gallery.
How would you propose to differentiate between what would be, as you said, those convenient situations and the other types of situations I mentioned that have MPs avoiding being in Ottawa?