Thank you, Chair.
Welcome to the witnesses again. Thank you for being here and for sharing your views and expertise with us. We sincerely appreciate it.
I'll just build a bit on what Madame DeBellefeuille was talking about. With respect to you, Mr. Bridgman, you came with two recommendations.
One of them is that you believe these big social media companies—this social media environment—can be regulated.
Then, in responding to a question from Mr. Van Popta, we outlined.... Bill C-18 happened. There was a reaction from Meta. It didn't go very favourably, because now we have this vacuum. Maybe you didn't use the word “vacuum”, but that's basically what it's become. They didn't play ball at all with the government's attempt, yet you recommend that they participate if there were regulation brought in, in some type or form.
What evidence could you present to this committee that big corporations like Meta...? The Canadian market is very small relative to their presence globally. What evidence do you have that they would, in fact, participate in any regulation the Government of Canada might bring in?