Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a big problem. I agree with Mr. Kolga in respect of a whole-of-society approach. If you want to look at a robust regime for dealing with social media disinformation, I suggest you look at Singapore, which enacted laws in the last several years specifically to address socia

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for clarifying what I meant to say earlier. The issue of the writ is one that's always bothered me in this respect. Just to go back to what Mr. Kolga was saying, this is an infinite issue. An average election is 50 days. There are 315 other days in the year in which th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I understood the question. I'm still working on the answer.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The problem we're talking about, disinformation, is a global one. Lots of other governments are asking the same questions you are. Right now, the British Parliament is doing new legislation in response to the Russian interference in Brexit and the election at the same time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. What I intended to say in my opening comments was that in the course of doing my work, I had no access to any of the intelligence that went to the panel from SITE, the integrated intelligence organization.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was classified above my security classification level, and given the time that was at play, it would have taken quite a long time to re-establish what I used to have as a security classification. That's essentially it. I would say, though, with respect to this issue, that my

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I am about to say is based on public source information. I haven't seen a piece of intelligence for a very long time, three grandchildren ago. Public source information is quite extraordinary—not just here. It's, in fact, global—Europe, the United States and so on. Certain

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think so.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. As noted, my name is Jim Judd. I am a retired federal public servant. I retired from the federal government in 2009. I am here today, I assume, because I was asked by the Privy Council Office several years ago to do an assessment of the critical election incident pro