Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to our panel of witnesses this morning. It was quite an interesting commentary. I'm going to try to jump around to all three sets of witnesses. I'm sure the chair will give me lots of flexibility with my time.
I'll start online with Samara. In my past life, I had the great privilege of reading through the transcripts from a large number of MP exit interviews, which I found absolutely fascinating, for some research I was doing at the time. One of the things that struck me about the MP exit interviews was the focus that a lot of the MPs placed on the informal aspects of Parliament, such as the unofficial encounters, the hallway conversations and coffee in the cafeteria.
Yesterday in the House, we heard some wonderful tributes to the late Bill Blaikie. The leader of the NDP talked about the Robbie Burns nights on the Hill, when MPs could get together outside of the daily debate.
My question is, what challenges do you see with a shift to virtual? These kinds of informal interactions, informal encounters, events and activities that typically take place throughout the precinct.... People aren't able to have those interactions.