First of all, I would like to thank all my colleagues for showing that we can all work together on such important issues. I think this facial recognition technology study will be very important for Canadians, as well as internationally, potentially.
Mr. Chair, I just want to bring something to your attention. As we have been trying to get testimony from the Kielburger brothers and as they have defied our Parliament, saying they will ignore a legal summons, it has been brought to my attention that they're running Facebook ads today. The Facebook ads are being paid to say, “Forensic analysis exonerates WE Charity”. It's put out by a group called FriendsofWE.org, which I believe is paid for by the Stillman foundation. This is the Stillman foundation that, as we know, paid for full-page ads while our committee was unable to do our work. The Stillmans who were the key people put by the Kielburgers...to deal with our witness Reed Cowan.
I think it is an incredible act of arrogance and complete disregard for democratic rights, particularly on behalf of a group of people who have received the Order of Canada, that they would be running Facebook ads patting themselves on the back while showing such contempt for Parliament.
I would just like to have that on the record, Mr. Chair.