Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the folks who are here providing testimony for us. I will first go through the chair to Ms. Henderson. You said earlier that our threat level—I think I got this right—at this point, today, is at a medium. If that's the case, I'm just wondering if you could tell us what the threat was between January 22 and 29 and then from January 29 until the convoy was removed.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's interesting to me. Is there a measurement for internal threats and then a measurement for external threats, or are those two things combined?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The last question I have at this time is really around connectivity. We know that it continues to be a challenge for some of our rural and remote communities. I come from a riding where, if I drive 20 minutes out of town, there is no connectivity at all, and no phone. That is definitely a challenge.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. My questions will be mostly around criteria. There has been a lot of testimony for the past couple of weeks and a lot of discussion about having set criteria around when people participate remotely and when they are on site. Interestingly, we just heard from the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments that they continue to have hybrid.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I hope that the priority is the health and well-being of the people who work for us. As a person who only speaks one language, I could not do this job without them. I just want to recognize that and continue to work towards having them report back to this place that they are very happy and healthy in their work, and we're not there yet.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Through you, Madam Chair, I thank the witness for his testimony today. It was very personal, and I appreciate and honour that. I know that all of us around this table probably have stories of times when we would have really liked to be close to our family to support them through very hard moments.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. Perhaps I can come now to Mr. McGill. I understand also that there are no set criteria. Obviously it sounds as though you do have some general ideas of what those might be, but there isn't anything specific. I know you are doing your 12-month pilot project.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Of course. Is there any way of tracking if people participate remotely or on site?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all the witnesses, of course, for being here today and for your testimony. I'm going to go first to Ms. Davies. First I want to thank you so much for sending us the information about the translation services. It has been a large concern for us in Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It does. That's very helpful. I guess my follow-up question would be this: Is there any method whereby that information is tracked and put out publicly? What I mean is that when you look at our records, for example, you can see how I voted on everything that I did. Is there any tracking methodology that's made available for the public to know if a member is participating remotely or on site in the House?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I really appreciate the testimony today. More importantly, I really appreciate the incredible work that the interpreters do in this House. They are so kind, and they do such a great job of making our voices understandable to people who speak one of the official languages.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You keep referencing research, which is really important. We have a report from the NRC and we have a report that this committee is still waiting to see from the House of Commons administration on the AV system. With respect to that, do you have any comments on those two reports and what their impact is?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I really appreciate the testimony that we're hearing today. Perhaps I could start with you, Professor Seeber. One of the things that would be helpful, just for clarity, is if you could talk about the difference between the cognitive capacity load effort as opposed to what it means to talk about acoustic shock.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay, that's fine. I'll ask you a question you can answer, then. I apologize for that. You talked about cognitive load. I'm just wondering if you could talk to us about what is specific to this in interpreting from remote participation as opposed to seeing the person right across from you.