Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. It would be a reputational. It would be an open-source intelligence search.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have analysts who do that sort of thing and focus mostly on dangers and threats toward members of Parliament. We don't do it currently. If mandated, it would be a question of resources and being mandated by the Board of Internal Economy to do so.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be the board.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think so. I think the gentleman wasn't a physical security risk but a reputational risk. The only way to avoid a reputational risk here is to do a verification of their background. For us, that's the only way to verify such an individual's reputational risk.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In my opinion, if you had 500 guests, you'd have to do the background on 500 guests. We didn't know that this gentleman was being recognized by the Speaker. We do the physical security. We do a database check to see if they're a risk to our parliamentarians or to Parliament itsel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I'll just confirm that we have the ability, given the time, to do an open-source check on an individual.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Our plan is to start off with an initial series of briefs to the members of Parliament and to follow up with regular awareness sessions on any developments relating to national security and/or foreign interference. More importantly, when the members are first elected to the Hou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the best organizations to provide information to our members of Parliament on national security would be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. On foreign interference, it would be CSIS. Those are our best resources. I think if I would try to do that here, I would be doing

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, we've been in discussions with CSIS over the last couple of weeks about how to come in, or even virtually, to best inform our members of Parliament in groups. We have 338 members of Parliament, so one large group would be rather difficult if you're going

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There have been those discussions much along the same lines. My role and the role of my folks would be as logistics officers and bringing CSIS in and facilitating their briefing the members of Parliament on foreign interference or threats.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a hypothetical question, so I'll do my best to answer it. CSIS is responsible for the first communication with an individual MP. If they have a concern regarding foreign interference, for example, with that MP, that MP's office, that MP's staff, that would be CSIS reaching

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, currently, we have a memorandum of understanding with CSIS and their integrated threat assessment centre. As I mentioned the last time I appeared here, that was signed on March 30. We're still developing our model, our way forward and our process, and w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Nothing comes to mind at this time, Madam Gaudreau.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, yes, it would be much like the model in the U.K. If information came to light that affected all MPs and was a concern of all MPs, CSIS would likely go through my office to warn the MPs of any potential interference.