Procedure and House Affairs committee  On what system?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Can you give me an example of one of the proposed changes that would affect the IT system? As Mr. Simms pointed out, any mess-up on an IT system can....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right, so that's even for things about people spending inappropriately or appropriately, any changes with the way you're meant to govern that, changes the way your computers work, the way that reporting is done.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Here's what confuses me. The bill to make some of these changes, to fix the problems that the government and that we and many Canadians agreed with, to fix the problems in Harper's elections act, Bill C-23, was introduced November 24, 2016, in Bill C-33, and hasn't been seen sinc

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is Elections Canada participating in any way?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  So the government is participating, and just dropped 2,000 pages on the claimants, arguing for Bill C-23, Harper's bill. It's more than confusing to Canadians, who said they want truly fair elections. A government that promised to do that is fighting in court to maintain the stat

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You're not?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Does a citation like that, from our Foreign Affairs Minister concern Elections Canada at all?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it's not.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You're working with our spy agency, and you're working with other intelligence agencies to determine if there was any interference in the 2015 election. Is that right?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's about hacking into your system. There's also the threat of the fake news cycle, what we saw in the recent U.S. presidential election. Is it of concern to Elections Canada that repetition and amplification of outright mistruths, particularly by foreign aggressors, as our F

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This has happened in the past, hasn't it? There have been false robocalls sending people to the wrong polling stations.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you, gentlemen, for appearing today. You said you were in conversation with the Privy Council Office. Are you also in conversation with the Minister of Democratic Institutions?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They're in Privy Council, but they're not in the Minister of Democratic Institutions' office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's curious. You talked about the deadline, which you've let us know about. You've let the government know of this deadline. The homework was due in order to have the changes in place. Some of these are very substantive changes. The ones that are contemplated in Bill C-33 inc