Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses.
I'm subbing at this committee for this study, and it's very similar to some of the testimony we're hearing right now in the subcommittee on international human rights. Whereas Canada used to be protected by our geography from a lot of these authoritarian international forces, I think we are in a situation now in which we're not anymore. They can get right into our children's phones, so we can't divorce Canadian democracy and civic resilience from global forces.
I'd like to start with a question for Ms. Lau, because we heard yesterday at our subcommittee that authoritarian national actors are working in a coordinated way and learning from what they're trying in different countries. When there's push-back, they learn from that, but when they get away with something in one country, they will replicate it in other countries. Democratic forces and legislators are not necessarily doing this kind of international learning and coordination—although, Ms. Lau, you shared some examples, including the really good example of Cofacts in Taiwan. I know of Rappler in the Philippines.
How do we better coordinate internationally to make sure that we are learning from one another and learning that what is happening globally is impacting us. We talked about a fund; we talked about different things, but how can we best do this? I'll start with Ms. Lau, and then I'll go to Mr. Salvo.