Madam Speaker, I will take advantage of my hon. colleague's question to seize on some of the many topics that she raised.
These include facial recognition, foreign interference, and disinformation. Recently, in committee, a witness told us something that stuck with me. He said that one country in the world is disinformation-proof, and that country is Finland. The Finns live next door to the Russian bear, and they are no strangers to disinformation.
In 2014, however, they made two decisions. They decided to have schools teach critical thinking so that people could make what I would call reasonably enlightened choices. They also decided to bolster independent media by strengthening their independence and freedom. The two conditions for countering disinformation were therefore education and strong media.
I am forced to concede that here, in Canada, these things are somewhat lacking. It saddens me, because I have not seen many places that teach critical thinking, even to young children. Right now, all we see are local media crumbling and collapsing. We have become fertile ground for disinformation, especially when it is spread by malicious foreign actors.