Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Speaker just described the exact approach that we would like to take, if we're being asked. I am certain Mr. Duncan wouldn't want to remove that decision from the whips. As you know, this is part of their responsibilities, so I would leave that to them, but it would certainly

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Speaker answered the first part of the question. The question of the difference between using Zoom and using an app is really about enabling more mobility for the member. That's one part. The second part is efficiencies. We believe that through a vo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We think so, Ms. Normandin. Given the work that was already done in the last six weeks, we believe that we are able to meet that timeline. However, your schedules may well be affected, because we will have to get people involved. It is easy to develop it internally, without consu

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It could certainly be done on an individual basis. When I say a group, I am thinking about all the members we will have to work with.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The consultation would be done individually, and we could provide the team with feedback from various members.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it would be useful to be able to do a small-scale simulation. Then, perhaps we could do a large simulation with the entire House before we use it officially.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Today, the Speaker introduced a plan when he was discussing the request by the Opposition House Leader. That is one of the plans that have been proposed. Plan C, actually, is a plan like the one we discussed with Mr. Turnbull previously. This is to support members individually w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be good. The premise would be that people will not be able to vote if they run into difficulties. Does the committee accept that, or does it wants us to come up with another way of voting on an individual basis for members who run into difficulties? That should be a c

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Go ahead, sir.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There has been a lot of discussion on that subject. The first premise was to eliminate the possibility of this happening, so one of the recommendations made by Mr. Gagnon's group and my group was to all use the same system. That way electronically we could validate in real time w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They have been provided, sir.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I meant by that, Madam Petitpas Taylor, is that we're already paying the salaries of these employees right now, so, for preparedness, we reprioritized their activities in order to work on this. Recognizing that we're already paying their salaries, whether they're working on

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That was the intent.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said earlier in my comments, Madam Petitpas Taylor, right now we're leveraging the existing resources that are currently funded by the House for other activities. We've reprioritized some other activities in order to focus on this, because we want to ensure that we're ready