One thing I can contribute to the conversation is this: Putting into an election bill that one cannot say false things about an election, for example, is relatively new. We've done some comparative work looking at how election laws deal with the issue of disinformation. Canada is one of the few places where this has been written into election law. There are very few examples of that, cross-nationally.
The thing I'm concerned about is this: While I think it's definitely a step in the right direction, we've noticed, in some of our cross-national research, that there's very little evidence on whether it ends up having the intended effect, at the end of the day—whether it's enough to actually improve the quality of our discourse. That would be where broader things that are not necessarily easily legislated through an elections act have to come into play. Things like civic education and civic literacy are longer-term investments, essentially, in the population. It's about investments in political institutions, even. That's one thing I caution.
While it's definitely a step in the right direction, we can't expect it to be the silver bullet that deals with the issue of disinformation in elections.