Thank you.
One of the questions we've raised in opposition over the years is about giving police more tools, because if you give police tools, they use them. My colleague Mr. Erskine-Smith suggests that if we get everybody's data and information, government can help them by sending information to them.
I've been in opposition for 15 years and I've seen government often use those resources to say, “Hey, have we told you about our great climate change plan? Have we told you about the great child tax benefit?” To me, if you had everyone's data, the power you would have to send that out in the months leading up to an election is very disturbing.
I represent a rural region in which a lot of people have real difficulty obtaining the Internet, and yet seniors are told, “We're not taking your paper anymore. You're not filling this out. You're going to have to go online.”
We're forcing citizens to become digital. What protections do we need to have in place to say that citizens are being forced to use digital means to discuss with government, but they don't want to hear back from government, so that we limit the ability of government to use that massive amount of data to promote itself in ways that would certainly be disadvantageous to other political parties?