Thank you, Chair.
When we talk about foreign intervention and potential foreign interference in the 2019 Canadian election campaign, we tend to think of Russia in our discussions. I'd like to ask some questions, however, about the history of the American-based Citizen Engagement Laboratory,which in 2015, in partnership with the Tides foundation, also based in the U.S., moved several million dollars into Canada to Leadnow, or through its Canadian subsidiary, the Tides subsidiary, the Sisu Institute Society in British Columbia.
You mentioned that $500 buys an awful lot of Facebook time, so does $1.7 million or $2 million. I'm wondering about the regulation. We're coming back to third party intervention, where the researcher in British Columbia, Vivian Krause, pointed out that it's easy for a political leader to take the high road in the campaign when a third party is well funded and is doing the dirty work on social media.
I wonder if all three of you could respond to that.