Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under the protocol, whether with the caucuses or with the whips, the house leaders or members, I always have great respect for confidentiality. I work for every member. If a member asks me to help search through their drawers, I am going to help them. However, once we get outside that situation and someone else—it may be the whip, the Speaker—asks me, it is enough to clarify the situation for me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, we didn't put that process in place because we wanted to respect...

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Each day, we take a picture of what is in all the emails. The English word is "snapshot"; I don't know the right French word. As well, we keep a log every day of what goes out externally and what is received from outside, to know that those emails were received and that they were sent to the outside.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, in some cases there is the content, and in others there is only the title.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It may be that the document wasn't attached.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's the same email account.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. Everything relating to email is kept in a central storage environment.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is very probable.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You can't attach a document, but you can do a copy and paste and send virtually the entire document.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly all calls are recorded, but that is done by the service provider. We don't really have access to that information.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I explained earlier, given that we take the equivalent of a snapshot every evening, somewhere in time, that information will be available.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Even if it has been completely removed, we can go back to try to recover that item. However, it is a lot of work. When we receive millions and millions of emails and documents, it isn't easy to do, but there is always a way of searching and doing searches to try to help a member.