Thanks, Chair. I appreciate that.
To all the witnesses, it's nice to meet you, some of you virtually, some in person. Thank you for being here today and sharing your expertise.
I have to admit, as a new member of Parliament, that all of this is quite concerning to me, particularly as a young Canadian. The more I hear from experts with various perspectives on this issue, the more I find that government as a whole has left Canada—particularly young Canadians—very vulnerable to the influence, whether passive or not, of foreign actors who are not our friends and who have no interest in doing us any favours. I'm very alarmed by this.
In particular, my perspective is that of one of the few members of Parliament from gen Z; we get all our news from social media. None of us is going to cbc.ca—or very few of us are. Most don't follow the mainstream media. I would argue that's probably similar for diaspora communities; they predominantly favour other types of information sources to get their news.
We have a question about how active foreign operators are in those spaces and what, if anything, is being done to govern that to ensure that we're getting the truth and not necessarily what some foreign country wants us to believe.
I'll start with Mr. Shull and Mr. Burton on that front.