I can speak to the first point, which is that there is a concern about the risk of that data going to the PRC. As I think this committee has heard before, that data is not housed entirely in Canada. There are questions about the applicability of Chinese law to Chinese companies, including the parent company of TikTok, which is ByteDance. It is certainly foreseeable that data held by TikTok Canada could, as you suggested, end up in the hands of the People's Republic of China.
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