Mr. Chair, absolutely, we do a lot of work to understand the threats that exist online, what those cyber-threats are that target Canadians and Canadian organizations. One piece of that is looking at the threats that come to our democratic process. Approximately a year ago, we published a report on the threats that AI poses to cybersecurity.
Part of that is really about being transparent and providing a mechanism to let Canadians know what those threats are. The fact that cyber-threat actors are able to automate what they do, do it at scale and do it faster and in a less expensive way means that the threats increase. The fact that we have generative AI that allows somebody to create deepfake images has clear implications for our democratic process and the spreading of misinformation. We publish that information and make it available so that Canadians are informed about their decision-making, but it's not the only piece that we put out there.
As mentioned previously, we have a campaign called Get Cyber Safe, which is used to distribute and disseminate that information on social media. We have resources on misinformation, disinformation, other cyber-threats and things that anyone can implement to make themselves more resilient from a cybersecurity perspective.
We're not the only ones, though. Our colleagues at the Privy Council Office have the democracy tool kit. Our colleagues at CSIS, at the service, produce information about those threats. It's all across the table. The rapid response mechanism puts pieces out, and the RCMP has education campaigns.
It's not something that only we do, but there is an awful lot of work out there to make sure that Canadians are well informed heading in as they're making their choice to vote.
