In my experience, not only personally but also with other Canadians, when they are intimidated and bullied, and their lives threatened and false rumours being spread throughout the various media, not just social media, but various individual blogs and e-mail, this is being done and facilitated because of the anonymity that currently exists. Anybody can log on to any of the social media sites using any name they want and any set of credentials they want to create an identity and continue to work through that identity.
The only thing that is available for the police or for the authorities to identify that individual is the URL, the location and the identity of the computer.
That currently is difficult, if not impossible. I have tried for five years to track down the individuals who have been defaming my family and made death threats against us, and I was told every time that it was to no avail, that it was impossible, that they could not do it.
My hopes with this legislation, given that same set of circumstances, is that we would be able to make accountable those individuals who are utilizing that media to intimidate and threaten, and that there could be consequences for it.