That's a really fascinating answer. It's quite a bit different from my experience at the municipal level. Thank you for that.
For my second question, I wanted to dig a little bit into recommendation 9, which is talking about grassroots lobbying.
I understand that grassroots lobbying is basically an appeal to members of the public through mass media by direct communications that seeks to persuade them to take a stance on an issue or seeks to influence government decisions. It seems to me that this could also apply to social media, to alternative news sites and to so-called influencers, who routinely can have very sophisticated organizations and who routinely seek to influence public policy and put out calls for action through direct communication or online.
Is that included in what we're talking about, or should it be?
