Evidence of meeting #19 for Public Safety and National Security in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was twitter.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Paul Chiang Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON
Thank you so much for your answer.
I would like to invite Ms. Damoff to make a comment.
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Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
Thank you, Paul.
To both platforms, as a woman in politics, I am subjected to some of the most vile, misogynistic comments on all of your platforms—Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Your reporting tool is not effective. If it's a direct message on Facebook, I can't report it at all. You're not doing a good job of monitoring your social media sites. When I'm tagged by a colleague who is a person of colour, the racists comments are absolutely disgusting.
My comment was that you need to do better. I've brought this up before with these platforms at the status of women committee. It's not acceptable that people should be subjected to these kinds of comments on these platforms.
12:55 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
Ms. Damoff, you had the last word.
Thank you, everybody. Thank you to the witnesses. This is current; it's controversial, and it's important. I thank you all for sharing your insights with us.
Members of the committee, that's it for today. We finished exactly on time. Thank you for your efficiencies.
With that, I now adjourn this meeting.