I thank the member for the question, Mr. Chair.
It's true that we have a collaborative relationship with social media platforms. When we identify information threats, we contact the platforms and submit that information to them so that they can determine whether those threats violate their own rules, their own terms of use. That's the way we do things. Each platform determines whether the content should be taken down or whether they continue the conversation with us. It's a variable geometry relationship. Some platforms are more collaborative than others.
At Global Affairs Canada, we prefer to let the platforms themselves communicate the measures they are taking as a result of our recommendations. We feel it's our duty to communicate with these platforms whenever we have information that could be relevant to them. So we have a fairly transactional collaborative relationship with the platforms.
I couldn't tell you which platforms are more reluctant than others. Some chose to communicate publicly following the federal election, while others did not.
