Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both witnesses for joining us today.
Professor Seaboyer, I'll start with you. I appreciated your opening statement when you were outlining the threats that exist against Canada, particularly how the Kremlin uses that information overload strategy to find those fissures in Canadian society and blow them apart. Eventually, we end up with an apathetic populace that seems to doubt the institutions that we all once had a great deal of trust in. Certainly, as members of Parliament, we see that effect almost on a daily basis in our dealings with constituents.
One of the interesting things about this study is that we've had the chance to interview witnesses who reside in eastern Europe and for whom Russia has always been an existential threat—we're not talking over the last decades, but for centuries. In particular, for Sweden, I've been really interested in how there is the existence of a Swedish Psychological Defence Agency.
We've also had some witnesses talk about how Canada needs to enact a digital resilience strategy and really equip our citizens with the proper tools to detect these misinformation and disinformation attempts, while still allowing—and this is the challenge, of course—a free exchange of ideas.
Do you have any thoughts on that Swedish model? Do you think it might be something that Canada has to one day employ as a stand-alone agency? Is that something you can offer some comment on?