Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow-up on your comments about accountability, because I'm trying to think of a similar situation where there is a corporate lack of accountability. Facebook has an enormously successful platform. It's used all over the world. It's making unprecedented money. It has no competition and yet, in this past year, the U.K. parliamentary committee has made a finding that it was a digital gangster and the privacy commissioner in New Zealand found it to be morally bankrupt. Facebook was denounced by the UN for complicity in the Myanmar genocide.
It would seem to me that normal corporate practice would be to get on a goodwill tour and start to fix the problems and reassure people, yet Mr. Zuckerberg ignored his appearance at the International Grand Committee, and now we have your report coming out.
Facebook said, “Thanks, but we don't want to spend any money to actually comply, so we'll just pretend you don't have jurisdiction over law.” You referred to its policy as an empty shell. I'm trying to figure out what is fundamentally wrong with Facebook.
Is it the corporate culture, which I'm not asking you to venture in on, or is it that its fundamental business model, like the fundamental business model of surveillance capitalism, is based on ignoring the privacy rights of citizens, and it simply will not change a business model that has worked extremely well for it, even if it is breaking the law of Canada and numerous other jurisdictions?