Thank you.
Thank you very much to all of our witnesses today.
We're looking at the digital charter, and all of you have mentioned strong enforcement and real accountability when it comes to social media platforms. Today on the Hill we have an international grand committee that's looking into citizen rights and big data. We have a real challenge, because we have Mark Zuckerberg refusing to even come to the committee. He's in contempt of Parliament, essentially, because he refuses to come before this international committee, and therein lies the biggest part of our challenge.
If the big digital players don't respect what we're trying to do in our respective legislatures around the world, how can this end up being meaningful? It's a very significant challenge. It's really going to require, I think, all of our countries to call them on the carpet and tell them that they are responsible.
When you hear about the numbers online, the percentages that you've all raised here, it's just mind-blowing. That, in and of itself, is a very serious challenge when we can't even hold them accountable to what we're trying to put forward. We can put forward what we think will be important legislation, but if they don't adhere to it, where are we?
I want to go back to something.
Lina and Sinan, thank you for being here from my local community of Windsor-Essex. I appreciate your being here by video conference today.
I want to go to something that Lina said when talking about that real-life experience. I wonder what this looks like on the ground when you're trying to combat online hate or you see something and you think, “Is this hate? What is this?” You start to have those conversations among others to try to get them to stop it as well.
I also wonder if you can speak to the impact of having that burden on you and your community and in particular on young people. I know you do a lot of work with youth. What is the impact of this responsibility that's now on their shoulders to battle this every day when they're seeing things online?