Procedure and House Affairs committee  If a BlackBerry is used in conventional mode, it's the same as sending an email from an office, whether you're sitting in the House or in an office. But we don't keep any record of it, there is no log in the case of origin and destination.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it isn't recorded, we have no log of that kind of activity.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, but we could look at what happened on the local machine. There is no central system that manages the faxes on machines individually.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's mainly Bell.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Every night, we take what is called a snapshot. We take a "photograph" every night, between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m., of what is in the system at that time. That is kept for a year. We also do what is called a journal of what happened during the day. That is what is received from the outside and what is sent to the outside.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If they are emails that are within the internal House of Commons network and you delete those emails during the day, we are very probably going to lose them completely.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right, the member called us. We offer that service if a member is looking for an email or a document that may have been deleted or damaged. The member can call us and ask us whether we can help find the document. That is in fact what happened. The member asked our call centre to find documents for particular dates, and we responded to that request.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As you know, we have quite an extensive offering right now across Canada for every constituency office, and also we launched around three months ago an extensive pilot with around 20 members of Parliament in terms of allowing access at distant airports, when you travel from cottage, from home, and this and that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Very shortly, based on your specific question, sir, in terms of interfaces using the car for mobile device, we've assessed a number of solutions. Members are using a variety of solutions today. I think the Bloc was one of the first to introduce new technologies for these kinds of devices, and the security aspect is not as extensive as when you're trying to access the internal network.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Ideally, the plan was for us to complete the pilot and go to deployment as soon as September.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Just to complete my point with respect to standing offers; in fact, why do we choose this or that piece of equipment? The fact is that the House of Commons regularly renews its standing offers, and we always choose the best price when the purchase is made. That is pretty much the approach.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. There is obviously a distinction to be made between equipment purchased for your riding office, as opposed to your office on the Hill. For your riding office, as a Member of Parliament, you have all the necessary latitude, except if you make use of your MP improvement fund; in that case, you must follow House of Commons standards.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We know that in the last quarter, approximately 43% were sent outside of their riding.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It can vary somewhat, but the figure is nevertheless very close.