Yes, I fear I've given the impression that I don't think misinformation and disinformation are potential existential threats. Instead, what I'm saying is that today in Canada, from what we've observed in terms of the impacts of incidences of misinformation and disinformation, it hasn't yet risen to the level of election threat or existential threat to democracy.
You raised the trucker protest. That's a great example of a mix of two phenomena occurring. One involves misinformation and disinformation. Again, I am happy to provide this to the committee. I published several academic papers looking at misinformation and disinformation during COVID-19. They were, in particular, about the influence of a lot of the misinformation circulating in the United States and its profound impact on the digital ecosystem up here. I certainly have observed that. It does matter. It is consequential.
There is also the other dimension, of politics. We can't confuse the two. We can't say, just because there is misinformation and disinformation behind a political phenomenon or as part of a political phenomenon, that the political phenomenon wouldn't exist without that misinformation and disinformation, that it wouldn't have occurred absent those, and that the solution to that political movement is to stamp out, reduce, remove or counter just the misinformation and disinformation part. It's not necessarily true that we can just—