Mr. Chair, we have seen instances in Europe in the past year in elections where party leaders were a subject of deepfakes. We've seen that also in the United States. I'm not aware of situations where that has happened yet in Canada, but it is something that is concerning.
In my recent report regarding threats to the electoral process, I've made a number of recommendations to deal with that, including certain prohibitions on misrepresentation of the voice or image by any means, and also some transparency rules around the use of AI in electoral communications.
Now, in the context of this bill—and I'm not an expert in procedure—I believe that there is no window of opportunity to deal with the transparency requirements. Certainly, there are provisions that are open that deal with impersonation right now that could be amended to include misrepresentation of key actors through the manipulation of their voice or image. I am happy to provide suggestions in that regard. I think that would be an important improvement to the bill.