Thank you very much for your question.
I'm delighted to hear that we have the same alma mater. I also forgot to note that it is located on the traditional land of the Abenaki.
To answer your question about the expert group, it and the government are examining precisely what you referred to, which is the digital services legislation recently announced by the European Commission.
Several of its regulatory aspects are indeed very interesting. I won't say more about them, because the expert group's deliberations to date will be released in public notices. If I were to say any more, I'd be giving my own interpretation. It's difficult for me to predict what direction this will take.
However, there are some very interesting aspects with respect to the sorts of entities and the types of content that require regulation. There is much discussion about it, and that takes me back to the member's initial question, which was what we ought to be doing about disinformation. By this I mean information that falls within the freedom of speech criteria, but that may be very harmful. It's a problem. Many Canadians feel strongly about freedom of speech. The parameters are complex.
The final factor is what kinds of obligations can be applied to all these entities? There are large entities, which could ultimately be subject to many requirements, and smaller entities, on which it is sometimes more difficult to impose them, but which are nevertheless platforms that contain a lot of harmful content. These parameters are under discussion.
I will conclude by saying that digital social networks are obviously a key issue. However, I would remind you that the greatest crimes in history and the rise of various forms of extremism did not need to wait for social networks to come along in order to spread their propaganda. So we need to address the issue of social networks, but it's also important to have initiatives in the field, in the offline world. For example, there is growing extremism in some specific working environments. Our concerns are to determine how to reach these segments of the population that are at greater risk and more radicalized, to prevent them from preaching to the converted and influencing those who could be most problematic.
Thank you.