Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Ramalingam, I'd like to continue with you.
I really appreciated your recommendations for our committee about strengthening mental health and community intervention and making sure that we adapt those services for online use. Our committee recently completed a study into gun smuggling and gang warfare. We heard a lot of testimony about the effectiveness of community-based programs to help vulnerable populations avoid a life with gangs. I think we can use the same model on this.
I want to ask you specifically about the subject of deplatforming.
We had Mr. Imran Ahmed before our committee last week. He is with the Center for Countering Digital Hate. I'll read a quote from his testimony. He said, “Deplatforming these people and putting them into their own little hole, a little hole of anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers and general lunatics, is a good thing, because [actually] you limit their capacity to infect other people. Also, for trends such as the convergence and hybridization of ideologies”.
You're proposing a set of recommendations where it's a positive intervention. Do you have any comments on the concept of deplatforming to try to, I guess, cauterize the wound and prevent some of these crazy ideologies and violent extremism from spreading to vulnerable groups?