Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for joining us today. I especially thank you for your very detailed report on the 45th general election.
I think election night is a very exciting and stressful time for candidates and Canadians alike. I'm sure everyone in this room was on the Elections Canada website on the evening of April 28. Unfortunately, when we needed it most, elections.ca crashed. According to page 18 of the report, it went down at 7 p.m. on election night, and it was not fully restored until just after 5 a.m. the next morning.
I strongly suspect that even the most hard-core political junkies were fast asleep by 5 a.m., and there was probably a very large reduction in volume and traffic on the website by that late hour.
I was wondering if the witnesses could share with the committee what exactly went wrong with the website and what steps are being taken to make sure that it doesn't happen again. I hope the technical solution is not to just to wait until five o'clock in the morning, when people stop using the website.