Sure. The panel exists, by design, only during the caretaker period. The relevant agencies and ministers are live to the possibilities of foreign interference before, during and after the writ period. However, during the writ period, the caretaker period, where parties are out campaigning, the panel functions as a mechanism of last resort in case something rises to the level that would threaten the integrity of the electoral process at either a national or an individual riding level.
The experts' information comes to the panel via the SITE task force. As I said in my opening remarks, that involved, during the time of the election after a number of preparatory meetings—I believe there were four meetings before the election and six meetings during the election—the SITE task force providing daily updates as to what it was seeing or what it was not seeing. We had weekly meetings to ensure we had a shared understanding of what the SITE task force was reporting to us. Then we would deliberate on what we had learned.