Marsi cho, Madam Chair. When I first heard of this bill, the first thing that popped into my mind was you should always hope for the best and plan for the worst. I think, if a second wave for this COVID were to occur, this legislation would help with it; but, as the Member for Frame Lake did mention, it's important that we have really strong infrastructure in terms of Internet.
It brought up some concerns. Let's say, if I was visiting some constituents in Lutselk'e and, say, if I was staying at a bed and breakfast or at the Co-op and I wanted to go on the Internet, okay, we have a sitting that we need to go and I need to be seen and to do some committee meetings, or whatnot, or even theoretically have a session, it would not be good enough right now. Sure, we can use the phone. I'm not sure if that's going to be built into the wording, but I could probably get to that with my question. Those are some of the concerns that I have. I'm going to use my hands. Right now, what we're asking, the standard needs to be here, but for a lot of our small communities, it's much, much lower. We're right here. We need to bring our infrastructure in terms of Internet and communications up to where we need it to be so we can have proper communications if we're in the small communities. That's very, very important otherwise.
For me, like I said, it's all about parliamentary privilege. We need to be able to represent our communities properly and, if I was in, say, a community like Lutselk'e, it would be really difficult unless I'm on the phone and calling. I know that, in a lot of places, they build in authentication to prove who you are. I don't know if anybody can replicate my voice and impersonate me, but you know what I mean. There need to be those things kind of built in. Those are just some of the things I'm thinking about on the fly. I guess my question is: will some of this wording be built in that, say, if I was on a telephone or on Internet, if it cut out, would there be something built in for me to represent my representatives over the phone? Marsi cho.