I'd like to start by saying that we're talking about people's lives. We heard a very personal story from a witness in the previous panel that was backed up by a decision at the Human Rights Tribunal in favour of her and her experience.
There is a very important line around freedom of speech and making sure it's protected fiercely in our country, and at the same time preventing...not just online hate speech. Yesterday we heard from some Facebook folks. The chair and the vice-chair and I participated in a panel where we heard from Facebook about hate and what happens with the building of online hate and how it's really a systemic issue that ultimately results in hate speech on the Internet. We talked about Facebook and Twitter. We mentioned those things here. There are so many applications, so many gaming chat rooms, so many corners of the Internet that we haven't been able to have proper conversations about here, because we've focused on the larger web giants. This is systemic throughout the entire Internet.
The challenge before us is very difficult—having conversations about reporting; having conversations about lived experience, which we heard previously; about the importance of protecting Canadians and making sure they feel safe in our country. It is a very difficult task ahead of us to take all these things and place them ultimately into a report that will reflect everything we've heard here.
In the previous panel, we heard about the differences between the way online content and physical publications are treated in our country.
Ms. Zwibel, how do we account for the differences in treatment of what you're able to put in print and what you're able to put online in our country, and how do we reconcile those two? How do we create something that is equal across those platforms?