Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, both, for attending by video conference today.
Since my late-life involvement in partisan politics in 2006, every election has seen new technologies available for use and new ways of accumulating, analyzing, and applying data to identify the voters who are supporters and those who are not. A lot of what we are hearing in this particular study of the vulnerability of our democratic electoral process with regard to the inappropriate use of user data by Cambridge Analytica or Facebook is where to draw the line.
In my experience, it is as Professor Giasson outlined—identifying voters through the electoral list, through responses or clicks on social media or political party sites, or through volunteers coming forward and providing their information.
Where would you suggest we draw the line on accumulating a certain number of data points on Canadian voters? We are told that, in the case of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, they accumulated in their so-called information warehouse as many as 5,000 data points on more than 230 million Americans, obviously to be applied in a way to compromise or interfere with the democratic process through the vulnerabilities or preferences of those social media users. Where would you suggest we draw the line in Canada?