It's a great question, and I really agree with the way you framed it.
There are broader questions around all of our addiction to our devices and the way we engage on devices. Then there are specific sets of questions related to social media platforms and other types of platforms or apps on devices.
Canada has been working at this for five years now: How do we get to a place where we regulate social media? Our view is that we were very close at the end of the last Parliament. We were very close to a bill that could get through. It was a bit of a compromise package, but basically, it would have put the duty of responsibility on platforms, with a focus on the seven categories of harmful content. It would have put requirements on them to deal with them, with a specific onus on the two most egregious and a specific focus on kids, with a regulator who could effectively oversee these things.
We just need to move forward with those things. What we've learned is that we need heightened provisions to focus on kids, and we've talked about a lot of those. We've learned a lot, even in the last year or two. Tiana speaks so thoughtfully about influence, for example, and how that space has been evolving. Obviously, the impacts of AI are something that we'll need to consider.
I really think we need to get on with it, and I don't think we need to go back to square one. We know the broad strokes of what we have to do. I hope the government, which has signalled it should be coming up with a bill soon, and Parliament, which has had a couple of cracks previously at going through this legislation, recognize the urgency of moving this through quickly.
In closing, I think all of us have to deal with these broader issues of how we're adapting to our screen time. I am a terrible influence on my kids. My wife and I will have our screens in front of our faces. There's a broader set of social issues and social norms that we all need to think about, and then there's a specific set that we need to deal with on social media. That's the way I think about it.