Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We're looking at different things to ensure that we can authenticate the person. For sure, the use of their account on the Hill would be one of the things that would be required to be able to vote. You would need to have access to the personal information

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With the tool kit that we already have at the House, we do have the ability to use different models for electronic signatures. In this application, we would also have the ability to leverage the concept of taking a picture while someone is casting their vote. That is a capability

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Madam Chair. Thank you for the question, Mr. Richards. Currently, we do have some internal resources through the House of Commons that are assigned to this project. We've been working at this for over six weeks now. These are costs that we would have i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, sir. The only partners who have been engaged in this process are CSEC and the House of Commons staff.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We believe that, if given the okay very quickly, we could possibly have something for the return of Parliament in September.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. As part of our mobile strategy at the House that we've been implementing over the last three years, we do provide best practices for security for people who work from home. They're basically founded on ISO standards 27001 and 27002, without getting into t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have had discussions with the parties on a level of security for caucus meetings similar to the level of security associated with in-camera meetings. Our priority is that people understand the sensitive nature of the information that will be discussed, how it will be discusse

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Because of the nature of the debate during these types of meetings, we did not assess Zoom for that particular profile of risk and threat tolerance level. This is something that we will be doing in the future. Skype for Business is within our infrastructure, and we felt that we w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, we have been consulting with the national security agency, sir.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In our discussions with the national security partners, sir, we always do risk assessments for products that we want to use. In our discussions, recognizing that these are public meetings and that the Zoom platform enables us to implement the security controls that are required f

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The advice we received was that we needed to put the proper security controls in place, sir, and we did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Without getting into specifics—if you wanted to do that, sir, I would request that we go in camera—I can certainly share at a high level some of the things.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can give you examples. There's the concept of virtual waiting rooms, sir, so that all participants can be cleared. Before someone participates in or enters a meeting, they need to be vetted through their credentials so that we know who's in the waiting room. We authenticate the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, they did, sir.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can answer, sir, if you want. Mr. Speaker, would you like me to answer this?