Procedure and House Affairs committee  May I ask which question of the many I was asked?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those were concerns about email verification.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, there has to be some avenue to verify or identify that a vote was correctly recorded. That could be via a website or some other channel. The issue we have with email is that it's not encrypted end to end. It's not a suitable technology for this purpose.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Email is not encrypted end to end.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a number of ways you could go about it. These would be procedural matters. The core procedure that needs to be in place is something to handle both, (a), when somebody doesn't have an opportunity to vote because of some kind of network issue, such as when the website go

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Who's the question addressed to?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're distinguishing between a vote that might be input via a web-based interface using a browser, in which you sign in on a laptop or a computer, versus an application that might be on a smartphone. The network connection and security and so forth are managed slightly differentl

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely, and I certainly remember that time with those close votes. The issue that you're raising about bandwidth and dropping is actually a bit of a concern, especially if there is a threat actor who has the capability of cause the member's vote to drop at a specific ti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Proxy voting in a general election has a lot of problems. I know that they allowed it in Toronto and there were instances of abuse. I don't think that would be as easy to abuse in a legislative context where the voting would sort of be in many cases along party lines—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, I—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not implying that an MP is a function of a party. I'm a cybersecurity expert. I am aware of the notion of a whipped vote, which in that case would imply that there would be a sort of an understanding ahead of time on how members would vote, but setting that aside, in proxy vo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe that was in the title of the article, so yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under the right conditions and with careful design, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will approach this question from my experience in general elections. Predictability is right at the core of the democratic principles that you might have for an election, and the predictability would feed into the notion of fairness and that everyone has an opportunity to vote.