Okay. That's great. Thank you.
As I was saying, I think one of the things that I would like to note or go back to for just a moment here...and I will tie all of this into the relevance of the amendment that I put forward. It is a good-faith attempt to trying to reach some consensus on this committee about how to move forward. I recognize that it feels like we're at a bit of an impasse, but I hope that opposition members—in particular, the Conservatives— will see the light based on my arguments today and, hopefully, agree that we can move forward with consensus based on having the national campaign director for the Conservative Party and the other members who are noted in my amendment come here. That, I think, makes perfect sense, and I can tell you why.
One of the things that struck me in the Rosenberg report was.... I've already gone through a lot of the substantive things that our government has done to combat foreign election interference, but one of the projects was the Canadian election misinformation project. What's interesting about this is that there was an attempt to work, and I think successfully to some degree.... I think we can look at how successful it was and actually drill down on key questions that committee members have. I certainly have a lot of questions about not just foreign election interference but misinformation campaigns online, of which there were some—and I would say many—during the last two federal elections. I would like to get into a little more detail on that to say why campaign directors would be useful to hear from, because of course they would have quite a lot of information and an ability to provide information on things they've witnessed and observed during their campaigns. That might be useful for us in terms of learning.
One of the things that I was going to reference in Morris Rosenberg's report is that there was an analysis done of the role that social media platforms play in spreading false information. That's not to say that they intentionally do it, per se. It's just to say that there's a role they naturally play in today's society that allows for the spread of that information.
Madam Chair, am I still coming through okay? I noticed that Ms. Blaney was kind of squinting, so I wondered if I was coming in clearly.