Thank you, Minister. Thank you to the officials who are here for the second hour.
I wonder if you have had time to read, first, the interim report that this committee filed last July, and then most recently, our final report in December entitled “Democracy Under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly”. It dealt very closely with the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook-AggregateIQ scandal, and associated attempts to interfere in elections in North America and Great Britain.
I wonder what your comments are on the recommendations of this committee and on previous recommendations in our review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the PIPEDA review that was done by this committee, which recommended greater order-making powers for the Privacy Commissioner and more substantial, more significant penalties for violations of Canadians' privacy, including with regard to the democratic electoral process.