Thank you for being here, Minister.
Our committee has recommended imposing a duty on social media platforms to remove manifestly illegal content in a timely fashion, including hate speech, harassment and disinformation, or risk monetary sanctions. I want to read a comment. This was in response to a media article about the hate and threats from the yellow vest movement. Interestingly, I think if they knew that the yellow vest movement in France was calling for a wealth tax, minimum wage, maybe they wouldn't associate with the yellow vest movement so much here in Canada, but they called Mr. Trudeau a “traitor to our country” who deserves to be “hung for treasonous crimes”. That's posted on Facebook; that was left on Facebook; Facebook doesn't take it down, so should we expect social media companies to act or should we require them to act?