I'm looking at low-hanging fruit that the government could implement in short order. I know that there's a bill before Parliament that has received a lot of controversial scrutiny. It looks at setting up a very big bureaucracy that's years out. That debate hasn't started in Parliament yet. I'll focus my remarks on things we could do in very short order within the existing Criminal Code to get justice. That would be my second thing.
I'll go to Samara in a second, but I want to mention my last recommendation. Let's say that came to pass. There was a tool by which if a behaviour online had reached a certain threshold, an order could be given to social media platforms to disclose identity. I'm not talking about for freedom; it's harassing behaviour.
The next thing is, what's to be done about it? In those scenarios, what often happens is that identity might come out. People might know it's happening, but there's this grey area on whether or not the person can continue to contact you. Oftentimes what will happen is that one account might be shut down, but then there's another. It's very easy to create a different email address. It's difficult to block people who are constantly harassing.
In that scenario, when there's a threshold of behaviour reached, as determined by the court, would you recommend that a judge could issue—I'll use a term that would have to be defined—an online restraining order that would prevent a person, almost in perpetuity if the judge so deemed it, from contacting somebody by any means online so that the behaviour stops? It would be a tool to de-escalate that behaviour from violence.
Would either of you recommend that?