I think every parliamentarian is aware that the government has worked to introduce online harms legislation. There is speculation that this will be challenged in the ongoing trade negotiations that are under way as we attempt to renew our free trade relationship with Mexico and the United States. It's why we see the greatest success with larger political entities like the European Union, which has introduced a variety of statutes. The EU is being challenged by big tech, and Canada can expect to be challenged as well. It doesn't mean that we can't do hard things and that we shouldn't try.
In fact, it is much like another era—the 1960s and 1970s, with the great era of cultural nationalism—when we established the CRTC and many other means to ensure that Canadian voices could be heard by each other, unimpeded by American broadcasters. We need to find our resolve on this question so that Canadians can speak to each other unimpeded again.
