Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am the father of four daughters and grandfather of three granddaughters. I am disappointed with the witnesses before us today. They seem to trivialize the situation and want to defend their business at all costs, and they are doing a very good job.
Here, all parties are unanimous. Faced with the magnitude of the problem, all parliamentarians in Canada are affected right now. I'm not sure whether the witnesses are aware that their site can cause collateral damage to young teenagers who are caught in a maze with no way out; they don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. This causes major problems for those kids. It leads to depression, runaways, and in some cases, suicide.
We may never be able to connect the triggers. Your site is probably a trigger for major societal problems. We, as lawmakers, won't be able to keep our eyes closed on the collateral damage you cause for money, just for money. You have set up a site that provides mediocre safeguards, and I'm sure that you have spent more money on legal counsel than on protecting teenagers.
If you still have some ethics and honesty, I would ask you to provide the committee with your budgets for site security, the number of people working on security to protect people who make complaints, and your budgets for legal counsel.
Those working for your company are robots. They are robots who post and repost the content. They sometimes prevent certain content from being posted, but when that content makes money, the robots put it back into the system or accept it. This is inconceivable, it's just to make money. You're not protecting Canadians, our teens are getting into something they cannot get out of, and their lives are being affected. If you still have any ethics, set up a program to help them. When a teenager calls you to say that a video has been posted without her knowledge, that she doesn't consent and asks you to remove it, remove it.
What are you going to do to get rid of those videos?