Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks to all our witnesses today. You've given us a lot of important material to digest. We greatly appreciate your expertise.
I wanted to go to Mr. Vranken and Mr. Riekeles. I haven't asked you a question yet.
I wanted to ask you two questions.
First off, does it make any sense at all that Canada subsidizes—indirectly—Meta and Google to the tune of over a billion dollars a year? This is something that is inexplicable—that we pay businesses to advertise on these two platforms—given the size and scope of the companies.
Secondly, what are the suggestions that you can give us in terms of tackling online harms legislation? The government has been very slow to introduce it. It is absolutely critical given the outbreak of far-right extremism that we're seeing and the far-right extremist violence provoked often by the malgorithms that we're talking about. What are the lessons learned that we can take in Canada to ensure we have legislation that actually combats these online harms?
I'm starting with Mr. Vranken.