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Member of the Subcommittee on Review of Parliament’s involvement with associations and recognized Interparliamentary groups Deputy House leader of the New Democratic Party

Lindsay Mathyssen

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of the Subcommittee on Review of Parliament’s involvement with associations and recognized Interparliamentary groups Deputy House leader of the New Democratic Party
  • NDP
  • London—Fanshawe
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 66%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $131,911.16

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Context: House Hansard - 172 - Mar/23/23
Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)
  • Mar/23/23 5:57:32 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Mr. Speaker, I sit on the national defence committee, and we are discussing a lot about cybersecurity, which relates to the debate today. Obviously, the armed forces are having quite a recruitment retention issue, but across the board we are seeing this with the labour shortage. One of the questions we were talking about regarding cybersecurity as it relates to national defence was around security clearances and what the government needs to do to attract people to the cybersecurity industry, potentially trying to ensure that people from outside Canada are attracted to this industry. Maybe the member of Parliament could address that a bit. I know it is a little outside our scope, but it certainly gets into how we start to address a lot of the problems we have been discussing all day.
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Context: House Hansard - 172 - Mar/23/23
Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)
  • Mar/23/23 4:12:37 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Madam Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague for his speech and his series of responses. I also want to thank him for being the chair of the defence committee. I know this is a little outside the topic of the bill, but I had asked a another colleague from the same committee two questions that have come forward during our study of cybersecurity. The first was on his thoughts and ponderings on international calls for the International Criminal Court to consider cyber warfare an act of war. The additional thought was that 90% of what the Canadian government sees as classified information could actually be declassified, and the ability to help our organizations sort through a lot of these cyber-attacks and information, when in fact we could eliminate and limit the amount we classify.
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Context: House Hansard - 172 - Mar/23/23
Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)
  • Mar/23/23 1:43:22 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Mr. Speaker, I want to ask some questions of the hon. member that are more related. I know it is a bit away from this bill, but he mentioned in his speech the work we are doing in our defence committee on cyber-defence and cybersecurity. I have two questions. There have been calls for the International Criminal Court to declare cyberwarfare an actual war crime. What does the member think about that? There is also the fact that we heard that Canada and its security institutions actually overclassify information by about 90%, and that if we could declassify a lot of that information, this would significantly help those security organizations deal with the specific threats we are seeing. I want to hear the member's opinion on that.
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Context: House Hansard - 164 - Mar/6/23
Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)
  • Mar/6/23 4:38:24 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Madam Speaker, just before the hon. member's speech, we heard from a Liberal member. One of the things the member spoke about in his speech was specifically that the government knows best and to just trust the government on this and we will be fine. That came out of one of the answers to a question I asked. Can he expand on that in terms of the concern we have with the answers we are hearing today, and in terms of the transparency and accountability required in this bill?
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Context: House Hansard - 164 - Mar/6/23
Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)
  • Mar/6/23 4:22:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Madam Speaker, I too reiterate the thoughts of my Bloc colleague that we are quite behind in this with respect to what other countries are doing. However, my concern has to do with the broad scope of powers being granted to the minister in this bill. It was specifically written so that some of these orders were not published in the Gazette, so I would really love to hear from the hon. member why the bill was crafted specifically to keep that public piece of information out.
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