Thank you very much for this.
I want to talk about the government's decision not to put the political parties under PIPEDA or a similar regime that would respond to the specifics of the differences between political parties and commercial entities. If you talk to the people around our committee, we're very concerned about this, because we have been looking at the ability of third party actors to actually undermine democracies. If you talk to our political organizers, they're over the moon, because we are now in a digital arms race, and no political party is going to be willing to put down their arms first because they see the potential to do more and more targeting, to get more and more precise, and to shift votes in areas that are key. That's the reality we're dealing with, and we're dealing with a completely different world than we were in 2015 in terms of the speed with which this is happening.
Mr. Pal, I would like to ask you about the importance of having some kinds of provisions in place to make sure that we don't end up misfiring with these weapons, because we've seen what happened in the U.S. and we've seen with the Brexit vote how it can be manipulated. Do you think we need a strong legislative regime, and what would it look like to have some manner of accountability with regard to how our parties and other actors use this information politically?