This is a great question.
I'd like to start by highlighting a very recent study. I believe it came out yesterday or the day before. It's a study done in the United States asking people what kind of misinformation the public is most concerned about. The number one response was misinformation from politicians. I think, by the way, that this data would be replicated in Canada. The public does not want to hear misinformation emanating from politicians, even though they know it's there. They want steps taken to stop it.
The other thing that is very important to emphasize is that this is where there is some degree of agreement across the political divide—stopping the use of things like AI and bots in the context of elections and political discourse. There was a survey done by EKOS Research that found very high support, for example, for the use of some type of regulatory response to stop the use of AI in the context of a political campaign.
I think this tells us that the Canadian public really values honesty in the political domain, even though they're realistic about it. They're not naive. They welcome the potential use of regulatory measures in this space. They're less comfortable with regulatory responses—or there's more of a divide—when we talk about regulating misinformation, because that feels like infringing on freedom of expression. There are genuine legal challenges there. However, when you're talking about protecting the integrity of democracy and our elections, I think there's room for a regulatory response.