Information & Ethics committee  That is what I'm saying we'd have to look into.

Information & Ethics committee  I've already told you that we would have to inquire.

Information & Ethics committee  I have to inquire.

Information & Ethics committee  I have to inquire. I can't commit to coming back with calculations.

Information & Ethics committee  We don't have something as formal as an MOU. We've had extremely robust engagement with both Elections Canada and the commissioner of Canada elections. The commissioner's office is actually doing the enforcement of act; Elections Canada actually administers the elections. Especially with Elections Canada, we're working with them to source data on candidates and information that we can actually see surface in Google Search, for example, when someone is searching for candidate information.

Information & Ethics committee  It's not a reflection of skill. It's a reflection of their advertising systems work very differently from ours and they could accommodate the requirements in a way that we simply could not.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Essentially, there will be a team of people, depending on the specific issue, to respond to specific issues that get raised. We call them “escalation paths”. Essentially, when we have established regulators such as the commissioner's office or Elections Canada, they will actually have means to get immediate responses on urgent issues simply because they will escalate issues that are serious ones, and then we would actually bypass or accelerate through the normal reporting processes.

Information & Ethics committee  The team is actually in the process of being set up.

Information & Ethics committee  We are aware.

Information & Ethics committee  Simply because the way our advertisement systems work, the fix was not nearly as simple as it might seem on the surface. Again, these are extremely complex systems so that every single time you implement one change it actually has a cascade effect. After robust discussion over many months about the ability to implement these kinds of systems, basically it simply became clear we couldn't do it in time.

Information & Ethics committee  We were working towards the June 30 timeline, which is when the requirements—

Information & Ethics committee  June 30 was the only scheduled date we were looking at because that's when the legal obligations came into effect.

Information & Ethics committee  There wasn't a date because June 30 was the only date. It was the date when legal obligations came into force and if the system was not built and in place by then, we would not be in compliance with the law. Therefore, if it was—

Information & Ethics committee  Our engineers told us it wouldn't be feasible for us to do that.

Information & Ethics committee  Correct. That wasn't entering into the calculus of the decision.