Thank you very much. I want to thank all three of the witnesses for some very good ideas.
I want to start with you, Professor Gunn, because of course, through your work with Civix, you do things like connect young people to their elected representatives, helping to demystify the process. I really like the word you used when you talked about attachment. I wanted to follow up on that, because I think this is one of our challenges. I've often said people have stopped listening to each other. They're getting that feedback loop in their social media—the polarization.
I wonder if you can talk about the need to have forums where people of differing views could talk to each other, hear each other and have discussions. I'm thinking of things they have in the U.S., like Search for Common Ground or Millions of Conversations, where they have dinner parties with people of differing views. One thing that I do every Friday is have an open Zoom coffee hour with constituents. Anybody can join. They set the topics, and people hear each other.
Can you tell us a bit about what we can do as a government to support that kind of conversation and attachment?
