Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all for the insight, the opinions and the advice that you've provided to the committee today.
In the barely 24 or 35 hours since NAFTA became USMCA, there hasn't been an awful lot of talk about intellectual property protection and the borderless digital universe. But a number of folks have spoken up and there is some buzz, below the radar, that in fact the protection of Canadian intellectual property will now fall under the U.S. regime, that North America will more or less be under the U.S. system when it comes to the protection of intellectual property.
There is a suggestion that, in fact, the big tech companies will not be responsible for the content on their platforms, which would—it's been suggested, and I'd like comments from the three of you—mean that investigations of the Cambridge Analytica-AggregateIQ-Facebook scandal would not be possible, or that they would be unaccountable with regard to the content on their platforms and the way it's used.
Could we start with you, Mr. Pal?