Thank you, Mr. Chan, Mr. Sherman, for joining us this morning. At the outset I want to say that Facebook in my region has been revolutionary. I represent a region that's bigger than the United Kingdom. I have communities that have no access to roads. I have some of the poorest communities in North America. The access that Facebook provides young indigenous people, for people contacting my office.... I don't use the phone anymore. If I have a medical crisis in Kashechewan, I get a message on Facebook and they get a response. So the power of Facebook to do good is incredible, but we are here because the power for Facebook to be misused for terrible things is also at issue.
The question before us is the failure of Facebook to respect the absolute power it has. The sense is that in some ways it thinks domestic laws are somehow quaint. I was very surprised this morning to learn that Facebook has shifted 1.5 billion users from Facebook Ireland to Facebook California to escape the GDPR.
Mr. Chan, will you tell this committee that as an act of good faith you will immediately implement the GDPR for all users in Canada for Facebook?