Absolutely. With the support of the Canada centre within Public Safety Canada, we were working on a program that was trying to counter polarization on two topics—polarization between political left and right in Canada in the last year and polarization about the topic of Israel-Gaza, specifically in Canada. Those were two easy topics, as you can imagine.
As part of the effort to deal with political polarization, we looked specifically at trying to engage Canadians online. Following the survey, to go back to some of the survey data I quoted, we saw the gap between perceived polarization and some positions that most Canadians held. I believe that in the engagement, we used protection of minority rights. Working with social psychologists at the University of Ottawa, we developed a digital intervention.
The idea there is exactly what I mentioned before. It's to get people to engage with this information in a thoughtful way, when nobody else is watching. You can engage with it in the privacy of your phone. We tried to demonstrate the gap between perception and reality in a very tactile, fun and engaging way. We had about 10,000 people at large engaged with it. This was not a significant enough number. I wish we'd had more time to get more people to engage with it, but that follows the idea I presented before of trying to create positive interventions in digital spaces.