Information & Ethics committee  Once again, I'll jump in first. Absolutely, sharing information with third parties is of significant concern. As I mentioned, the security of our data is split into the two methods: protecting the data, and protecting against unauthorized access. It is evolving, but we certainly

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of quicker and more response time, online contacts....

Information & Ethics committee  As I mentioned a couple of times earlier in this room, I would leave that to Parliament. As the party, we would enforce whatever rules are placed upon us to make sure we're compliant.

Information & Ethics committee  It would require significant consultation and development or redesign of our processes, but—

Information & Ethics committee  —if it was brought into law, we would certainly continue to exist as a party.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, that's a great question. We take it very seriously that we train our local volunteers. You're right; there are several levels of volunteers that exist, by their level of involvement. Mr. Fenrick mentioned earlier that it would be very difficult to impose stiff penalt

Information & Ethics committee  We can start on that, if that's all right. Absolutely. We share the same concerns about third party involvement in the election—this past election and those upcoming. If there were to be some increased requirement for us to fully register all ad purchases across all channels so

Information & Ethics committee  I'll get started on that one, if that's okay. There are a couple of things. Other than working with Elections Canada on Bill C-76 consultation and any ongoing consultation on this matter, that's a bit outside my purview as privacy officer and membership chair. I'm not sure I can

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not.

Information & Ethics committee  We certainly are approached by third parties for that sort of thing from time to time. Our specific policy covers sharing, for our purposes, federally, as well as the local campaign level nominees. We recently had a leadership race and they were covered by that as well. Those are

Information & Ethics committee  You described the situation very well. It's more access to data for us that can be provided to us legislatively by Elections Canada. We put a lot of effort into acquiring that information, so if it can be provided to us we would welcome it.

Information & Ethics committee  As covered by our privacy policy, we collect it for the purpose of electioneering, for running a campaign, for contacting them for the purposes of winning an election. What you're describing doesn't fit with our policy, so no.

Information & Ethics committee  In that it would be using our data that we have collected for a purpose other than getting us votes in the next election.

Information & Ethics committee  Right.