Thank you to all the witnesses.
It's clear that foreign states are actively seeking to influence Canadians and disrupt our elections, including through new technologies such as generative AI and deepfake impersonations.
During the 2025 election, for the first time, Canadians received weekly technical briefings from senior security officials, providing transparency and addressing concerns about foreign interference in real time. We also strengthened the legal framework by passing the Countering Foreign Interference Act, and we have the SITE task force, which expanded preparedness measures, and it runs scenario exercises, engages political parties directly and enhances monitoring. We hear today that the threats are evolving quickly.
I appreciate your time because we want to explore what we can do to secure our elections.
We've also heard in previous testimony and a study before about potentially labelling AI for political content, banning deepfake impersonations during campaigns, preventing foreign funding through third parties and closing loopholes that allow untraceable donations. I look forward to hearing and learning from your experiences and your research about what works, what can continue to work and where the gaps are.
Maybe I shall start with Mr. Shull from the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
I appreciate your thoroughness. You summed it up quite nicely. We need a broad scope, an independent commissioner and strong compliance tools with penalties and consequences.
Maybe I'll start with some things you talked about for implementation. You talked about more information sharing between organizations. Can you give some examples of what has been working and some examples of things that can be improved, where there was not the right level of information sharing?