Information & Ethics committee  The mistrust overall is targeting institutions, including the media and politicians. One of the other factors that we should also consider is the development and the increase of news avoidance from Canadians in the past few years, especially after two long years of the pandemic.

Information & Ethics committee  Canada is already working hard with what it did with Bill C-18 and Bill C-11 for Canadian content, and with Bill C-63 it's going to fight misinformation and contenu préjudiciable as well. Are we doing enough? Probably not, but AI is an opportunity as well as a threat. As far as deepfakes are concerned, I would strongly urge the government to legislate on that matter within the next 12 to 18 months, especially on deepfake videos and deepfake audio, as well, which you mentioned.

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to thank the committee members for the invitation. I've been a journalist since 1990 and a professor of journalism at Université du Québec à Montréal for five years. I believe that 2024 represents a crossroads for disinformation and misinformation.