I think if we've learned anything from the last few days, it's that we continue to live in an age of surveillance capitalism that has the potential for serious consequences to our elections, to our privacy and to innovation, frankly.
While it has been frustrating at times, I do think we have made progress. We have had every single platform and big data company now say what they haven't said previously: They are going to embrace stronger privacy and data protection rules.
We had the platforms yesterday note that they need public accountability in their content control decisions and yesterday they acknowledged corporate responsibility for algorithmic impacts, so there is progress, but there is also a lot more work to do with respect to competition and consumer protection, and with respect to moving from an acknowledgement of responsibility for the algorithms that they employ to real accountability and liability when there are negative consequences to those decisions.
I think there's a lot more work to do, and that will depend upon continued global co-operation. I think our Canadian community has worked across party lines effectively. This international committee has now worked effectively across oceans, in some cases, and across countries.
The last thing I will say is that it's not just about addressing these serious global problems with serious global co-operation among parliamentarians; it requires global co-operation from companies. If there is any last takeaway, it is that the companies simply didn't take it seriously enough.