Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Chair. As always, everything is through the chair, but first I want to thank you so much, Mr. Chong, for coming here today. I imagine it has been a very hard period of time in your life to wrestle with these realities. What you said earlier about living your life as a member of Parliament, as a human being, and just down the street there is somebody who is gathering information, to what intent you don't know....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is the challenge. You were told of the general battle but not of the specific people in the battle, and so it was hard for you to address it. Since this has all come up, has there been any follow-up action around keeping you and your family safe? You talked earlier about no longer having connections with family overseas.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Before I ask questions of the minister, I want to read in a notice of motion. I will be emailing that to the clerk and we can send it around. I'll read it out, and then I'll get on to asking questions. The motion is as follows: That the committee recognize that (i) a 2014 resolution prioritized by the Liberal Party of Canada called for “an all-Party process be instituted, involving expert assistance and citizen participation, to report to Parliament within 12 months with recommendations for electoral reforms including, without limitation, a preferential ballot and/or a form of proportional representation, to represent Canadians more fairly and serve Canada better”; (ii) the 2015 Liberal election campaign included a promise to end the first-past-the-post electoral system; (iii) The 2016 Report of the Standing Committee on Electoral Reform observed that a majority of the experts who testified recommended proportional representation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In its May 2022 report, the commission also recommended that it should select the moderators of debates on the basis of consultations with experts. I'm wondering if you can elaborate on the criteria for selecting the experts who would be consulted if this recommendation is accepted.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much. I thank you for your testimony here today. The two reports following the 2019 and 2021 debates recommended the creation of a permanent publicly funded entity to organize the leaders debates. These reports also recommended that the commission maintain its permanent capacity in a reduced form between elections.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Based on that, what would be the necessary budget to allocate to the commission during an election period? The other question is this: What would be the annual budget to allocate to the commission between election periods?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Madam Chair. As always, everything goes through the chair. We are a couple of years now into a hybrid Parliament, and the system has been very beneficial to MPs who need to be in their ridings during sitting weeks for various reasons. I have two questions.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. I also have some questions around cybersecurity. That's an interesting one, and I know it's ever-changing. I'm curious. We had an issue in this committee not too long ago, when we had some witnesses from Alliance Canada Hong Kong. All of a sudden, we started having a lot of challenges.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My next question is around interpretation. Of course, one of the important things we've done in this place is expand the ability to have interpretation for some indigenous languages. I know this has been an interesting process for us to go through. However, we've also heard some concerns from some of our members who use indigenous languages to communicate: Information is being interpreted into English, and then it goes from English to French.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I like your tone today. It's great to see. Thank you to all the witnesses for being here today. I have a few questions. The first one is around security concerns for members of Parliament. We know there has been a significant change since the pandemic. What I'm wondering is whether you have the capacity and resources to respond to that change.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. You talked a lot about ethnic media, and earlier today we heard testimony about different countries resourcing media within Canada. There should be more accountability in how people are trained and what resources they're getting. I think that's an important part.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That does help. Thank you. This is my last question. It says here that 15% of Canadians have a high degree of belief in misinformation. This really makes me think of living through the convoy and watching journalists go on live television right there and ask people to share their thoughts.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and I thank the witnesses for being here today. I really appreciate your testimony. Mr. Andrey, I am going to ask you the questions that I have today. I thought it was very interesting when I read about the survey of online harms in Canada. The information was interesting.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I have no questions for Mr. Chiu, but I would just ask him not to speak for other members of Parliament, because I can verify that some of the things he's said are incorrect. Maybe don't do that for other MPs. Mr. Salvo, I would like to come back to you. In doing some research around the work that you do, I saw—hopefully I get this right—the authoritarian interference tracker, which is a really amazing tool.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. I appreciate that you mentioned earlier some of the realities—for example, on the convoy that we had here in Ottawa. We know there was foreign money: There was Russian money sent to support that convoy. It's quite shocking when you read the information that came out of the public inquiry, when you understand how quickly money was moving in ways that we couldn't necessarily track.