Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Chair, and I will do my best to go through you as we are meant to do. Yes, I am the NDP whip. I have quite a collection and enjoy power, obviously. I do find it really frustrating how people perceive whips. I'd love to talk with you any time about what the job really looks like.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much. I'll go to you, Mr. Bains, and ask specifically about how having the voting app impacted your ability to address your serious health issues.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. One of the other questions that I have for you, Ms. Collins—it's very odd to keep calling you that, but we'll go with it—is how hybrid Parliament is also helpful when you're in Ottawa. I think we forget that we used to not have a voting app, which meant that people who had small children were often not able to be there to read stories to their children and tuck them in at night.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and, as always, through you, my first question is for Ms. Collins. I really appreciate the information that you shared today about your specific challenges. I want to say how much I appreciate all the speakers sharing, in some cases some incredibly personal stories.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The same credentials...?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The same standards—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Is there a way that can be verified? I've heard that is not the case, and I just want to make sure that's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My time is almost up, so I'll concede the last 10 seconds.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. My question, through you, is this: Is how members participate tracked? Do you track who participates virtually compared to who participates...? There's no tracking at all...? Okay. Thanks. One of the things that I'm also curious about is that there was a pilot project of interpreters working remotely.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I'm trying to understand is, were their qualifications the same, of the same rigour, as what is required for the translation bureau?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Thank you for that. I will say, though, that I expect that I'll be coming back to this, because we do need to have it before this study ends. If we're going to be making the most educated decisions, we need to have that happen. I know that at the end of the day, the interpreters really paid a high price for transitioning.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do we know if, as freelancers, they're able to have a health and safety incident report. Do they submit them?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll ask them. One of the things that was mentioned here by you, Mr. Speaker—through the chair—is the fact that we could look at addressing what people's experiences are and who should and should not get to participate in setting some sorts of standards. I think that's an interesting idea, but I'm wondering about the implementation.