I'll interject for a moment.
While I appreciate the distinction between correlation and causation, I think it's safe to say that we wouldn't have ended up in a scenario that resulted in invoking, for the second time in our history, the War Measures Act, or the Emergencies Act in this iteration. There was a conspiracy based on clear misinformation around vaccines tied to tropes about world control via the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization. Indeed, we certainly have political actors—particularly among our friends in the Conservative caucus—who continue to espouse these types of conspiracies.
I would put to you that it's my assertion that it's an underlying pressure on this. Had that topic not been perpetrated in that way, the politicians at the end of the continuum wouldn't have had the material for the kind of ridiculous rhetoric that led to the shutting down of our country and, ultimately, the extreme measures that were taken vis-à-vis the Emergencies Act.
Going back to this, logic says that if there's no misinformation or disinformation to hang their hat on, malicious political actors on the other side wouldn't have the material to fan the kinds of flames that end up being existential threats. I say that because, while it is true there was a relatively peaceful de-escalation of that moment, it is also true that it led to an insurrection on January 6 in the United States of America. There are numerous examples around the world where disinformation is used to fuel genocidal rhetoric.
We've heard about a lot of different state actors here. We'll get into more in further rounds. I'm wondering, however, how you reconcile that.