Thank you very much.
Certainly, we've all been involved in following foreign interference for quite some time, notably foreign interference from China in our elections and the efforts that they've made through social media and other platforms to influence Canadian elections. As I mentioned, Iran is also a popular state actor with foreign interference and, of course, Russia is the topic of conversation today.
My concern, though, is that all of these actors are watching how the western world reacts to their foreign interference. For example, we recently learned in The Globe and Mail and through the foreign interference investigation that a former public safety minister of the Liberal government took 54 days to authorize a surveillance warrant for a Liberal power broker provincially—also a former Liberal cabinet minister provincially—and they dragged their feet on foreign interference. We can go on and on. It took six years to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
Perhaps this is more toward the intelligence individuals you've brought. What sort of message does that inaction or reluctance to act, and reluctance to take things seriously, send to Russia when they're looking to interfere with misinformation on social media platforms? Is that a strong enough message that we're sending to Russia?
This is to Facebook's intelligence officer.