Thank you.
When elements of our committee visited Facebook's headquarters in Washington last October—and thank you for your hospitality, for sharing assurances on the company's commitment to social media operations and precautions, and for the demonstrations of some of the wonderful new products, like the oculus virtual reality devices—we discussed in general the possibility of new regulations here in Canada with regard to PIPEDA, or perhaps even going beyond the existing regulations with more meaningful regulations and penalties for violations of Canadian users' privacy.
We were told, almost in passing, that any new Canadian regulations might well put at risk Facebook investments in Canada along the line of the $7 million invested in the artificial intelligence project in the Montreal hub.
I wonder whether today, after Cambridge Analytica, AIQ, and Mr. Zuckerberg's testimony in Washington last week, that same caution against more meaningful regulation would still be made by Facebook to Canada?