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Public Safety committee We can test that hypothesis. The gilets jaunes movement in France was directly driven by Facebook changing its algorithm after complaints that not enough voice was given to local views and local media. Facebook sort of cautioned about “be careful what you wish for”, and what we g
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee Germany has legislation that requires a significant amount of material to be removed proactively by social media companies.
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee That, hon. member, is an excellent question. I believe that the testimony given by the CSIS director to some extent corroborated the fact that for 20 years, the focus has been entirely on aspects of terrorism, violence and religious extremism. We lost sight of the fact that the
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee Canada is an interesting outlier compared with countries such as France, the U.K. and even the U.S., in that we don't have a problem of mass radicalization per se among any particular identifiable community. I think it is important for Canada to ask itself what we have done righ
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee I'm not sure it necessarily contributes to radicalization, but it certainly contributes to people holding, in some cases, more nationalistic views for economic protectionism. That is what the electoral data in continental Europe around such groups suggests. If we want to avoid a
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee Do you mean deprivation as in material deprivation? I just want to clarify what you mean by deprived.
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee I think the challenge with deprivation is that it's the catch-all explanation for just about anything and everything that ails our society. I think that, yes, deprivation is a significant intervening variable, but of course there are many individuals who are materially or otherwi
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee If we look at the January 6 storming of the U.S. Congress and analyze the people who were engaged in that, it turns out many were middle class. Many did not suffer deprivation. Yes, while it is one intervening variable that I think can drive extremism, it would be a mistake to ch
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee Certainly perception plays a huge role any time someone acquires or sympathizes with extremist views, let alone with extremist action. That is certainly one of the challenges of, I think, the last 20 years. Many people in the middle class fear that they might be losing some of
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
Public Safety committee Thank you for having invited me to appear here today. I'll be happy to answer your questions in both official languages, but I'll be delivering my address in English. While violent extremism in Canada is a marginal phenomenon, situations arising out of IMVE garner a lot of pub
April 28th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
National Defence committee I can provide some material to the committee. I would encourage you to engage Brigadier-General Brodie, Major-General Bernard, as well as the military personnel generation hierarchy, because those are the people who are ultimately responsible for the entire HR system. I think tho
April 6th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
National Defence committee Understand what the requirements are to be able to deliver for the government's expectations. I believe we don't currently have the right balance between accountability and transparency processes, on the one hand, and politicians who keep saying that they will deliver for the mil
April 6th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
National Defence committee Well, certainly on the equipment side, one of my German friends likes to say that the Germans have boats that don't float, planes that don't fly and tanks that don't roll anywhere. I would say that we have some rather similar problems on the equipment side. Interestingly, we hav
April 6th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
National Defence committee Mr. Spengemann, that's a great question, but actually, I'm not sure the Canadian Armed Forces needs more consultants to tell them what problems they have and what challenges they have. They know full well what those challenges are. What they don't currently have is the internal c
April 6th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht
National Defence committee To the best that I'm aware, with the numbers that are available—you'd need to check with the military personnel generation group—the policy has not had an impact on recruitment. It appears that interest propensity is as it was before. The impact it had on attrition was relatively
April 6th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christian Leuprecht