It's really great to be back on PROC, Chair. I am very much enjoying the start to this fall session, and I am very grateful to my House leader and whip's office for inviting me back to my favourite committee in Parliament. It's good to see all my colleagues again.
I was here when we studied foreign interference for quite a number of months. I think it was about eight or nine months, if I'm not mistaken. I'm very interested in the topic and very concerned for our democracy, so I share some of the intentions and the commitment that other colleagues on this committee probably have in wanting to protect our democracy from any electoral interference.
That's specifically what Bill C-65 was written for. There are multiple purposes within the intentions of the bill, which is called electoral participation act, despite the sloganeering from the Conservatives. It is quite amusing sometimes. It's also a bit misleading to call it whatever term they used, which I don't care to repeat.
There's this whole section in the bill on electoral integrity—