Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for their testimony.
Thank you for all your efforts to make our elections fairer and more accessible.
I'd like to talk, Mr. Chair, about the issue of disinformation and voter suppression, which has profound implications for our democracy. We know now what happened in Brexit and also in the 2016 and 2020 American elections. We see massive amounts of disinformation in the American election as we speak, with evidence of the involvement of foreign actors.
Mr. Chair, we've seen it right here at home with the Conservative Party, which clearly has been involved in voter suppression. I refer to the unfair elections act that the leader of the official opposition brought in himself. I would point to some of the provisions in that bill that really prevented access, particularly in the northern communities, which have limited ID options. The Conservative Party was fined $1 million for breaking election law, Mr. Chair. Of course, there was the very famous robocall scandal, for which I believe a Conservative operative went to jail. I know I had personal experience with that in the 2000 election, Mr. Chair, when seniors were being phoned at 11 o'clock at night on behalf of my campaign, supposedly. I think all will agree that's totally unacceptable.
My question is this: What kinds of penalties and what kinds of measures are going to deter these kinds of activities in the future? They are obviously very serious threats to our democracy.