Thank you very much.
Again, this is disappointing. This whole exercise has once again shown Facebook's contempt for not only our democracy but for democracies around the world.
We've heard from you, Mr. Chan, multiple times on other committees as well. It really is your willingness to only answer questions if they're softballs from the Conservative Party.
You even started this by saying, “Oh, we didn't know.” The motion passed by this committee was that “the committee undertake a study on tech giants' current and ongoing use of intimidation and subversion tactics to evade regulation in Canada and across the world”. You pretend you didn't know that? I doubt that you didn't do your homework, Mr. Chan. It's disappointing that you would come here and mislead the committee on that.
You misled the committee on other items. You say news outlets get hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising, but you leave out the part that your company is engaged in monopolistic practices that take the vast majority of ad revenue, so the free advertising is worthless.
I'd like to ask you about a 2018 meeting between the British culture secretary and Mark Zuckerberg, your CEO. He threatened to pull investment out of the U.K. if the government did not look to soften its stance on tech regulation.
Can you explain why your company would go to these lengths against legislation that seeks to protect children online?