Yes, there are improvements that could be brought to the legislation to make it easier to do that. At the same time, when you keep in mind that very often for us Canadians the companies or the Internet players involved, if you will, are outside Canada, whether it be Google or Facebook, all kinds of issues also arise in trying to get to these companies in a legal way to make them co-operate or cease what they have been doing.
On that point, Mr. Chair, I would mention that in Germany very recently, in the last couple of months, the government has taken steps to implement a system that would subject companies like Facebook and Google to pay huge fines—and I think the maximum is 45 million euros—if they fail, when required to do so, to take fake news off their networks. That's one way the Germans have apparently found to address the issue. It is a very complicated issue.
You may know that this morning the Senate committee, before which Marc and I appeared a few months ago, just issued its report, which I only could glance at because it only came out a few minutes before we came here. They did a lot of thinking around those issues, and they formulated some recommendations that you may find useful and interesting.