Information & Ethics committee  Information operations are not always nefarious or a bad thing. If you think of a conflict—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Sorry, it was a broader point on, for example, projects that Canada funds. Just because Canada funds an IO project does not mean that Canada is intending to undermine democracy around the world. When you look at counter-extremism, if you seek to confuse or interfere with t

Information & Ethics committee  When you take a step back, Canadians often—and rightly so—think of Canada as a country that goes around the world and promotes democracy. In doing so, you are strengthening civic institutions, and you are helping people participate. When you look at the actions of Canadian compa

Information & Ethics committee  It's if used properly. Again, this is why I keep stressing that just because data or psychology is involved does not mean that innately there is something nefarious is going on. There is a problem around the world, in Canada also, with voter disengagement. Fewer and fewer people

Information & Ethics committee  I disagree, and that briefing was sent to the Information Commissioner's office and The Electoral Commission. I proactively gave it to them and there is nothing in there that is illegal or goes outside the boundaries of the law.

Information & Ethics committee  I've had several conversations now with representatives of governments in different countries. One of the things that has become very apparent is that you might have a country that gained independence and the former colonizer left, but corporate interests didn't. What I mean by n

Information & Ethics committee  It was clickstream data of Internet browsing history.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That was the impression I got when I was there.

Information & Ethics committee  Again, to be clear, the work that was being done did not involve micro-targeting. The role of the LRB is not an election entity; it's to support the work of the caucus. The focus of the LRB is to look at policy issues to find out things like what people are talking about. If thei

Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't necessarily agree with your characterization of it. It is very well known in behavioural research that people often do not have insight into some of their own behaviours: for example, if you ask people how much they smoke, how much they drink, how many vegetables they

Information & Ethics committee  The Liberal Party does that; the Conservative Party does that; the NDP does that.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. Nor does the LRB and nor does the Liberal Party, at least at the time that I was there.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm aware of projects for which clients from one country would be interested in electoral results in another. To my understanding, SCL did participate in projects for which some of the funders would not be nationals or residents of the country that they were operating in. For ex