Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I'll try to tackle this question. There is strength in simplicity, especially when we're talking about cybersecurity and technology. One of the reasons Dr. Goodman and I have gravitated more towards video voting as an approach is that it does have a certain simplic

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I could borrow a line from the chair, whom I have been watching during these committee proceedings, I suppose that would be for the members to decide for themselves. I can tell you that in the Ontario municipal election we saw this sort of hybrid model in many Ontario cities.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I never say something is secure until I have an opportunity to examine it. I don't really know what Parliament does, but my expectation is that as a Five Eyes member, we would have top world-class cybersecurity. I've spoken to the CSE before. They are very capable, but again, as

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There was a bit of editing that went on after the fact, but what I am simply here to say is that, compared to the cybersecurity risks of online voting for general elections, online voting for legislative or parliamentary divisions doesn't pose the same sort of basket of threats.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When we said that, we were speaking as members of the public looking inside at what is ultimately a mostly opaque infrastructure—the intelligence community, the CSE. We don't really know exactly what they do, but we do know that they're there and we do know that they have a manda

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good morning and thank you, Chair. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to the committee. As I was preparing for this statement, my son reminded me that a group of owls is called a parliament, so let me say what a hoot it is to be here this morning. My name is Aleksander