Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Pirri, for being here. Welcome to Canada. We're glad to have you here for those of us who are rabid tweeters, not as rabid as Kady O'Malley is in the back there, but some of us like to send lots of tweets out. We even have our friends like Mr. Angus, who used to do it and then decided to quit.
I didn't know about this Politwoops thing so I think that's kind of interesting. It might give me something to do on the plane on the way home tonight back to Mississauga.
This has been a fascinating study. I think all members of the committee, regardless of whether they're government members or opposition members, have really gotten a lot out of this. I think our goal on this whole thing is to make sure we don't stifle the creativity and the innovation, and what Canadians want out of social media, because they clearly want it. They're using it, they believe in it. It's an important communication vehicle for them through their friends, through their colleagues, and so on. But I think we want to make sure that we're also having a strong balance to make sure people's privacy is protected.
My oldest daughter is 13. She tweets, and I'm always worried, concerned as a father to make sure that her personal, private information is not part of it. Most of her tweets are fun little things. I think it's innocent and it's all good, but as a father I worry.
Have you been able to come up with policies within the organization to make sure that younger users of the service...? It's great for adults to send something out, or violate their own privacy. We're adults. We should take some responsibility. But when you have a 13-year-old daughter, you are concerned. You want to make sure she has some latitude and freedom to enjoy communicating with her friends through an excellent social medium, but you also want to make sure that their privacy is being protected. Do you differentiate in users around younger users of the system and people my age and others who really should know better in what they're sending and how their privacy is being protected?