I think it is very difficult to keep on top of every new mechanism that technology enables for political communication. We are in a situation in Canada where we lack independent regulators and frameworks, really, for both platforms and artificial intelligence. I think that conversation about how we want to address these quickly evolving technologies really needs to direct its energies toward those developments. Key to that will be forms of transparency that allow us as societies to understand what these services, often companies, are doing and what they are sharing with Canadians, including during election periods.
I think the kinds of transparency provisions envisaged in an online harms act and in attempts at regulations for artificial intelligence are really critical, because the first step will be understanding what is happening and what is being produced by these technologies.