Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to all the witnesses.
Jane, thank you for your very courageous statement.
Before I get into questions for the witnesses, I would like to read a motion into the record, a notice of motion, which reads:
Given that: a need exists to quickly pass provisions to keep Canadians safe while protecting free speech; members of several political parties have expressed a need to split Bill C-63 in part due to reservations about the bill's provisions involving restrictions on speech; the committee is currently doing a pre-study on Bill C-63; Bill C-63 proposes giving full responsibility to develop regulations for online platforms to a regulator that hasn't been formed yet, and does so with too much ambiguity on what regulations this body will propose or administer; based on witness testimony, a better approach to keep Canadians safe online while protecting their civil liberties would be to legislate a defined list of responsibilities that online platforms have to undertake to keep Canadians safe; That the committee proceed to concurrently pre-study Bill C-412, promotion of safety in the digital age act, along with its pre-study of Bill C-63, so as to examine other legislative options to protect Canadians online, which could be quickly advanced by consensus without the controversial elements of C-63.
That's the motion, Mr. Chair.