Information & Ethics committee  I think it's a very serious problem. These aren't going to be hostile states; these are hostile terrorist organizations. These individuals will be sitting in another country. They are out there monitoring social media, creating their own websites and looking for youth. They are

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not quite sure what you're asking me. I'm sorry.

Information & Ethics committee  How I would answer that would be to say that, in any situation, any foreign threat actor is always monitoring everything that's going on within a country of interest. They will pick up on any little piece of information, and they can magnify that into misinformation or disinforma

Information & Ethics committee  The way I'm going to answer that is to indicate that there is always going to be, as you noted, a grey area. There is the policy and what the social media is collecting and engaging intentionally, such as—as they indicated—email addresses. However, as Mr. Khoury indicated earlier

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for this extremely important question. I think education needs to happen at all levels. Again, I'm not a policy person. I'm a mother, and I would like to make sure my kids get educated at schools, in community centres and across the board. We need to start to have th

Information & Ethics committee  Foreign interference is something we have been looking at in the service. I've been in the service for 32 years. From the day I started, we've been investigating foreign interference. It's something that has been in our country for decades. Canadians have become very complacent

Information & Ethics committee  We also have to guard freedom of speech. We have to educate across the board to make sure that we are guarding freedom of speech but also educating, at the same time, in regard to foreign interference. It's an extremely complex situation. It's not just determining that, yes, this

Information & Ethics committee  We don't necessarily monitor the development of social media platforms. It goes a little bit back to what I said earlier, that I would worry that we would focus on one specific platform or two specific platforms. I think it's really important to start to educate everybody on real

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I can answer this question. Thank you. First of all, I'm going to start by saying that foreign interference does not occur only during an election. Foreign interference occurs all the time, every day, and I think we have to bear that in mind, because when you start to look

Information & Ethics committee  I, myself, am not fully aware of all the networks within those specific countries. Again, as an innocent individual on a social media account, you need to try to find out where that social media account is being generating from. The more information Canadians take to get themse

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's an extremely good question and it's an extremely difficult question to answer. I think a lot of it goes back to what my colleague Mr. Khoury said, which is education—constant education. It's not only education for adults, but education at all levels. I'm not a pol

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have any recommendations per se, but I would like to pick up on one thing that you noted, and that was the vulnerability of our youth. What I am very worried about is that some of the youth do get onto these social media platforms and then they can get into some extremist

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I will respond in English. What I would like to explain a little bit more is the fact that a lot of individuals do go onto social media platforms and they do share a lot of information. As my colleague Sami noted, sometimes it's just what you like, an

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think it's ever too late to step back, but what I would say is that in some cases the horse may already have left the barn. You do have to be a little bit worried about that, but people do change as they move forward. If you stop sharing that personal information or you a