Thank you very much, MP Brassard, for allowing me the opportunity to clarify.
With respect to the birth of a new child, there's precedent there in other legislatures with proxy voting, and there's a good argument to be made there for extending that to electronic voting.
With respect to individual MPs, I wasn't necessarily thinking of busy schedules, I was thinking more of crises. For example, say there were some kind of flood in an MP's community and that MP needed to be there, or there was a big fire or some other kind of crisis. With COVID now we think of ourselves as having a macro-crisis, but I'm thinking of a micro-crisis in a constituency, “micro” being small because it affects a particular area. That could be very well defined so that it wouldn't be taken advantage of.
With respect to sickness, no example comes to mind right now, but I have seen or heard of situations where a member was battling cancer and either wasn't able to attend a vote, to participate, or some members have come while they are very ill to vote just once. In cases of sickness like that, the member could stay in the hospital or at home and rest and be able to participate. I'm thinking of extenuating circumstances, not just busy schedules.