Thank you very much.
Mr. Therrien, when we first learned of the Clearview AI case, it seemed to be the worst possible scenario. Here we had this company that scraped millions of photos of Canadians without their consent—our kids' birthday parties, our backyard barbecues, us at work—and then created a database that they were selling to all manner of organizations.
They claim it was for police, but we know that individual police officers had it without oversight. We know that a billionaire, John Catsimatidis, used it to target his daughter's boyfriend. You launched an investigation. Clearview AI's attitude was “Too bad, so sad. You're just Canadians and we don't even feel obligated to follow the law.”
We had a new law, Bill C-11, come in. My understanding, my gut feeling, was that Bill C-11 would fix these things so that we would have more powers and we'd be able to target these companies to make them respect the law. Are you telling us that under Bill C-11 the weight of support would actually go to rogue outliers like Clearview AI over the rights of citizens?
Are you saying that, on the monetary penalties we've been told about that would ensure compliance, a company like Clearview AI would be completely exempt from that? Is that what we're seeing under this new law?