Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Thériault, as well, thank you for proposing a very interesting and timely subject for us to look at in terms of our committee's mandate around both information and privacy. This is actually of great urgency and concern for many Canadians.
One of the things I would like to see scoped into the study, if at all possible and if you are amenable, is around a phenomenon that touches many Canadians in their pocketbooks when they're purchasing online. It's the increasing phenomenon around surveillance pricing. This really depends on private information like a person's location, a person's identity and a person's purchase history.
One of the main areas where we don't have much transparency right now is around how AI is being used to help create a system where consumers are at the mercy of highly fluctuating changes in pricing that are dependent on these personal data points being collected online and used by artificial intelligence to change prices instantaneously based on this information. It's a very emergent area of concern.
If you would be at all amenable to it, Mr. Thériault, I certainly would be interested in looking at that, because I think that also has a direct impact on many Canadians.