Evidence of meeting #29 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was online.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Members speaking

Before the committee

Dehaas  Interim Litigation Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation
Salvo  Managing Director, Transatlantic Policy and Programming, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Lau  Research Assistant, As an Individual
Banka  Volunteer, Vote16 Canada
Broder  Chief Executive Officer, Digital Public Square
Ghai Bajaj  Assistant Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College, As an Individual

April 21st, 2026 / 1 p.m.

Chief Executive Officer, Digital Public Square

Shlomit Broder

Thank you.

The way I think about it is in the digital spaces—the supply and the demand. I think Shelly's pointing to that as well. We have to go after the supply of disinformation flowing into our systems, but then we also have to create resilience so that there isn't demand.

What creates a harmful narrative that sticks versus one that doesn't? It usually takes advantage of some sort of existing fissure within our society. We have to build up the resilience on the demand side, and we definitely have to go after the supply side, which is very sophisticated. We're never going to stop that flow, but if we can reduce some of it and build resilience to it, that is part of the fight.

The Chair Liberal Chris Bittle

Thank you so much. That is five minutes.

The bells are ringing, so this committee stands adjourned.