Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not going to lie to you. At the last meeting we had, the characterization from the Conservatives about you was that you lost the password or you forgot a password to an email address—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm just incredibly embarrassed, on behalf of everybody, when we do this stuff in front of a witness. Would it be possible to either allow the witness to leave or finish the questions? We can then get back to the petty stuff among ourselves without having to subject the witness to this.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm just confused because we have a witness here. (Motion negatived: nays 7; yeas 4)

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They gave a report to that effect.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You are saying before the committee today that, during the elections in 2019 and 2021, yes, you received information, but there was nothing that signalled that it had any influence on the outcome of the elections. I heard you say that earlier. I just want to give you an opportunity to repeat yourself and to—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Explain the difference, please.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Just because you get a piece of intelligence, does that mean it immediately becomes evidence to go out and arrest somebody?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Can you explain the difference between the two things?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You must put the various pieces of intelligence on a ranking system of some sort in terms of how credible it might be versus how not credible, how it distributes amongst your trends that you were talking about. I won't ask you to get into where you ranked anything, but do you do some sort of process like that?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You're part of the group that comes together during that caretaker mode during an election to monitor in real time and respond in real time. I think that a lot of people would like to portray this as five people, you being one of them, who sit around a table and just look at Facebook and Twitter all day long and then make decisions on what looks like a threat.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You receive intelligence, and then the five of you, based on the various different inputs that you get, have to make a determination as to the credibility of that and how to act on it. That's your primary job. Is that correct?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The panel did not determine there was a threat, so there was no threat. I'm sorry. Can you rephrase that? There are too many negatives there for me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you, Mr. Stewart, for being here. I want to jump in a little bit to the exchange that you just had with Mr. Cooper. You mentioned it a number of times. You said a “river of intelligence”. You talked about “a lot intelligence”. The picture that's trying to be painted here by my colleagues on the other side of the table is that a memo shows up on your desk.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Every couple of days you get a binder. How thick is that binder? You're showing about four inches.