To clarify, we don't actively monitor social media; however, we do use it as part of our investigations through open-source information. We use software that refines our searches as a part of our criminal investigations or the work we do.
Through our national cybercrime coordination centre, we have ongoing relationships with all social media platforms. We have protocols in place, particularly around child exploitation and harm to young people. Those are all things that we do.
Obviously, we are working internally with the Government of Canada on online safety and future legislation, etc. However, again, the sheer nature of this is that we work with other police jurisdictions. Information is shared with us. We obviously use that to advance investigations. We follow lawful access, production orders and/or search warrants to obtain further information from social media platforms. We have ongoing protocols with their security departments to receive and retrieve that information.
When you look at every piece of social media that we identify and track and/or use as part of our investigations, it is evidence. It has also increased the demand within our organization. The demand on policing is fairly significant.