Information & Ethics committee  I heard those comments from Eric Schmidt as well, and I think he was generalizing a broader intent to see how technology could be used to improve and develop an urban area by integrating technology.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to the details of what Sidewalk Labs is intending. I can make observations around the development of telecommunications in Canada and railway and Internet access where—

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not privy to Sidewalk Labs' plans and conversations, so I can't speak to that.

Information & Ethics committee  I think I read the same newspaper article you read. He was CEO, not the founder.

Information & Ethics committee  Earlier this year, at the same time that the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica story came out, we launched an internal process to verify that our APIs and internal data protection processes weren't allowing similar lapses in information sharing. Through that process, what we discovered is that in Google Plus there was a bug, not a breach.

Information & Ethics committee  Unfortunately, I'm here on behalf of Google Canada. Sidewalk is an independent company under Alphabet, so I can't speak to their plans or announcements.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to their thought process on how they're identifying data protection in the project they're developing. While we have similar ownership, they are independent, and they're tackling a very different project from what Google Canada undertakes.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not familiar with the term. No.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to specific contracts that have that obligation. I know that there are contracts with our enterprise commercial users that try to stipulate that behaviour with their own data. That's a contract between entities. The underlying principle in that routing is based around the efficiency and the reliability of the network.

Information & Ethics committee  It boomerangs so that it's in multiple routes.

Information & Ethics committee  I think you're talking about the announcement around Google Plus.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.