Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ms. Blaney, yes, election of the Speaker and also an appeal of the Procedure and House Affairs decisions regarding private members' business are types of situations where there can be a secret ballot.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good morning, Ms. Normandin. Thank you for your question. The second option seems to be the option that the Speaker referred to in his presentation. The best example is when a member wants to rise on a point of order. In the recent virtual and hybrid proceedings, a reference wa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a positive way to encourage public participation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're always clerks, Mr. Chair.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The question you may want to ask yourself is whether citizens see the difference. What we're talking about here, certification of paper petitions, is something that's probably not known by a lot of people, I would say. The difference between this type of petition and the electron

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's for the committee to decide.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, that could be a—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're talking here about a very small window of time. It's usually at the end of a Parliament—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Some would say, however, that you're in a position to gather many more signatures with an electronic petition. I think around 1,300 people a day sign petitions on the website. It's up to members.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. When you receive a certified petition, there is a number associated with it. I suspect that when members resubmit it for recertification, the green page is usually still on it, and if it's not, there are no issues about that, because the clerk of petitions will look at it in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The electronic petitions would continue during the summer until, let's say, September 1 or whenever—