Information & Ethics committee  The name of the follower. If someone on Instagram, for example, follows Ontario Proud, we have their name or their handle.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we have.

Information & Ethics committee  I am not familiar with that terminology.

Information & Ethics committee  You can characterize a lookalike audience; I don't know what you're describing as a lookalike audience.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  For the benefit of the committee, can you define what you're describing by that? That would be appreciated.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee for inviting me here today to speak to you about your committee's review of the Cambridge Analytica affair and the privacy implications of the use of digital information in Canadian political campaigns. As the chair said, my nam

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Canadians and this committee are rightly concerned about foreign involvement in our domestic electoral process in light of both the Cambridge Analytica affair and the prominent interference by foreign actors in the last American presidential election. Cana

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have any specific examples. I think every country's experience with this is going to be different. What I would suggest, based on my reading of the draft legislation, is that a simple solution is to expand the prohibition on foreign financing of elections to all time per

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're concerned that the collusion provisions of the Election Finances Act in Ontario are not being upheld by Elections Ontario. I've personally identified several instances of collusion between unregistered third parties and political parties or simply with unregistered third pa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The concern is that it needs to be enforceable. It's one thing to have an anti-collusion provision between a party and a third party or two third parties, etc., but it needs to be enforceable. We're seeing in Ontario right now unregistered third parties that are just not regist

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for ceding the floor, Mr. Lavergne. I appreciate it. Just very briefly on that issue, I think there would be constitutional problems with preventing, for example, a trade union, which engages in political advocacy—frankly, all the time—on behalf of its members, from co

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee members for inviting me here today. My name is Ryan O'Connor. I'm the lawyer for and director of Ontario Proud, which is a registered third party political advertiser in the province of Ontario for the current provincial elect