Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We have worked with our information and privacy commissioner's team to develop what guidelines need to be incurred in that policy. We provide samples and examples of what is acceptable to us. Every political party must provide that to my office prior to receiving any of the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, that's not part of our privacy policy. What our privacy policy indicates is that the information we provide to the political parties is to be used for the electoral purpose for that general election. Their requirement is that they dissolve that information, and provide to me

Procedure and House Affairs committee  And that they've destroyed the data.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is a conjunctive investigation ongoing with the York Regional Police and my office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is ongoing.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I am really not in a position to comment on an ongoing investigation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it's critical. You have to go no further than to read many of the publications on issues of Facebook and other social media issues that have been raised in the last several months. I think it is incumbent on political parties and all political actors to ensure the person

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would suggest to you they would be considerable. Quite simply, with the advent of the Internet, and its utilization now as a major, what I would call, advertising forum for political entities to utilize, it is a challenge. We receive a number of complaints from political partie

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think we have found that the social media networks we have dealt with, the main ones which you just articulated, have been very forthcoming to work with. I think for some of the issues there have been, which have garnered a great deal of media attention over the last year or so

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At present they don't, unless they pass that $500 threshold. Then, they have to register with us. They have to provide all of the other requirements in Bill 2, which includes who is funding their campaigns, who is making contributions, as well as expenses they are incurring.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's one of the challenges, because the third parties only have to indicate to us where they source that money during the writ period. If they bring money through the campaign prior to the writ period or registration, there's no requirement for them to indicate to us exactly wher

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In any election the size of Ontario's or the size of Canada's, there has to be a consideration of cybersecurity on all fronts and on all means that we utilize both public data, public information, and the electoral process as a whole. We spend considerable time, as I articulate

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've already met with folks from CSE federally and CSIS federally. We've provided them all of our materials. We've provided them all of the documentation on the penetration and infiltration testing that we did. I have met with the CEO of Elections Canada. We've provided them advi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There was no evidence whatsoever during this election that there had been any collusion whatsoever. There were some complaints, which we investigated fully, but we determined there was no factual evidence of anything. I had recommended prior to the deliberation on Bill 2 that the