Thank you, Madam Chair.
Through you to the witnesses, thank you. I think that was a very valuable exchange that we just had. We're really trying to figure out where the gaps are and how we can improve them through legislation. That's what we've been hearing through several meetings.
However, there is some confusion as to how we even properly identify whether it is a foreign state actor or it's misinformation or disinformation coming from some unknown source. That was brought up in an earlier meeting today as well.
We had examples, let's say in the last election, of information shared on WeChat. It was stated that the Trudeau government would legalize all hard drugs and things like that, which was trying to sway Chinese Canadian voters away from voting for a Liberal government.
There's an exchange of all of this information going on at election time, which is not from verifiable journalistic sources but is being shared. We don't know where the sources of this information are coming from, and the environment is becoming more and more dangerous because we don't have a strong media ecosystem. We have a lot of media outlets that are shutting down in this country.
We also have what you mentioned, Ms. Robillard, about Twitter now. The users are no longer able to identify a source versus bots and other perhaps state actors that may be trying to influence our elections or the thought process of Canadians in general.
What should we do to improve our media ecosystem to make sure that there is reliable information? You touched a little bit on that just now, Mr. Bordeleau.
How do we improve our system of receiving information?
Go ahead, Ms. Robillard.