Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Leuprecht, I think I'll use my last two and a half minutes with you, sir. Thank you for appearing as a witness for both this study and our IMVE study.
This is really on the same subject that Mr. Noormohamed was questioning you on. You have said very clearly that you'd like to see a royal commission established to try to understand what went on. I guess one of the challenges that we identified in our previous study, and that I think is very pertinent to this one, is the role that social media companies play. If there are those vulnerabilities that exist and that potential foreign state actors can exploit to actively sow disinformation, cause discord, and help events like those in Ottawa come to fruition.... As you said, the capital of a G7 country was essentially brought to a standstill for three whole weeks.
Do you have any recommendations on some of the proactive things that we can be recommending? One of the things we've been struggling with as a committee is that line between honouring freedom of expression, a charter-held right, and also holding social media companies accountable for their role in providing a platform for this kind of disinformation to spread. Do you have any recommendations on some of the proactive things our committee can recommend vis-à-vis social media platforms?