Procedure and House Affairs committee  That might be able to be handled without including the actual electronic voting part.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My questions were more along the lines, Madam Chair, of how we ensure that the ability to communicate is there. I understood the complexity of that in the responses to Madame Gill around the challenges with upscaling from a few remote locations to the wider public.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Those are all my questions, Madam Chair. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. That's fair enough. I guess I'm not that far off from what he's suggesting. I'm just saying that I don't know if it has to be the actual voting process as much as the ability for proper communication.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can appreciate that, Madam Chair, and I think that the information to get back from the returning officers—if he is going to be utilizing returning officers to do that—is important, but I think it has to feed into the overall strategy. I don't think the information can be left in the returning officers' hands, assuming that they will utilize it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Madam Chair, if I understood Mr. Perrault correctly when he was answering Ms. O'Connell's questions and trying to address some of her concerns, he talked about engaging with members in the individual communities. I thought I heard him say that he would make sure that the RO is engaged.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. In terms of the consultation that he's doing, I want to think that he is doing it proactively. Can we have some assurance that this work is going to happen in anticipation of trying to determine problems, as opposed to always just reacting to problems that might have happened already?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Earlier on in the conversation, Madam Chair, I heard Madame Gill ask some questions about the wider availability of supporting indigenous languages throughout the country as opposed to in specific areas. I think in her example she referred to the case where somebody in Montreal wanted to vote.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good. I'm glad to hear that, Madam Chair, because I think that the lion's share of the difficulty in providing the service is providing it once, and repeating it 337 more times. Other than the fact that the cost associated with the hardware to do that might be cumbersome, I would suggest it's an investment for the country.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's not a point of order—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Perfect. That's what I was going to get at. I was going to ask if some recommendations would be forthcoming with respect to how something like that could be handled. I have 30 seconds left. If one were so inclined to open an investigation into this, how would that happen?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, my questions are for Mr. Perrault and are on the topic of election financing. There are reports that there is a lot of money that's currently being raised by the protests and blockades that are going on in Canada right now that is coming in from foreign sources.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Sorry, and I did say through the chair at the beginning so this is all through the chair. What is being done to ensure that happens, through the chair?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Now—