Justice committee  The way I understand the bill is that through judicial oversight, it could block the aggregate disclosure of information requests.

Justice committee  Not to my knowledge for the association. I can't speak to all of the individual companies or if they've been consulted on this legislation.

Justice committee  As I mentioned, I can't speak to individual conversations that our companies may have had with the committee when drafting this legislation. To my knowledge, at the association, we haven't been involved in the drafting of the legislation.

Justice committee  We do not.

Justice committee  Thank you. I can't speak for telecommunications providers. I can just say that for our industry, transparency and user trust are paramount. Our sites are only as good as the users who interact with them. In our industry, competition is everywhere and competition is really just

Justice committee  As I mentioned in my testimony, transparency is incredibly important, particularly the reports that many of our companies do in the aggregate on requests for data from governments. We do have some concerns with the legislation that it could block a number of these transparency re

Justice committee  I agree with those comments. On the transparency standpoint, our companies all pride themselves in putting out these transparency reports. It's important for people to understand the type of information that is being collected by governments in a way that is responsive to their n

Justice committee  Thank you. Sorry, there was a little bit of a delay before. To the point on our companies being responsive to Canadian citizens or being based in the United States, our companies are all global, and they see themselves as representing the communities and the users they serve, bo

Justice committee  I can't get into specific examples from specific companies and individual cases, but I can say that our companies all work with local communities and local law enforcement under the law. In particular, they put a lot of time and resources and effort into cases where people's secu

Justice committee  I'm happy to jump in first.

Justice committee  Yes, so first—

Justice committee  Thank you, and I apologize for not being able to join you in person. My name is Michael Beckerman and I'm the president of the Internet Association, an organization comprising 25 of the world's leading Internet companies. Our members are leaders in the Internet industry, and as