Speaker’s Statements — Question Time—Remote Participation

Members, before we move to oral questions, I just want to give members participating remotely three reminders. First, could members please use their first name and last name in Zoom so that the Clerk’s operators can identify them. The operators can’t admit people to the meeting if they do not know who they are, and using full names makes it faster to find members and unmute their microphones. With the exception of whips, who have special accounts, members need to be either in the Chamber or on Zoom. If they do both, it causes confusion. A reminder that unmuting and muting is controlled by operators. When I give the call, the member is unmuted. There is no need for the member to do anything, and trying to unmute themselves can cause the member to mute again.