Public Safety committee  I would just say this. We see his comments in regard to free speech as maybe concerning because his personal opinion on free speech and the one he's putting forward publicly for the platform seem to be at odds with each other.

Public Safety committee  Yes. That actually is something that I would support.

Public Safety committee  Yes; bots kind of do two things. First, they can be weaponized by non-state actors to exacerbate social conflict within countries. That, of course, is not something we want foreign state actors doing. The second thing they do, of course, is more like marketing—hijacking, trying t

Public Safety committee  It's just a great example of how a lot of people who do not actually believe in free speech and free expression hide behind those arguments. We've seen Elon Musk, on a personal level, try to censor or sue people who say things he doesn't like. It's very concerning when somebody

Public Safety committee  So no, I think it's an incredibly terrible development, but I don't know what we do about it. Thank you.

Public Safety committee  On the issue of anonymity, I think you are entirely correct in how you've kind of diagnosed it. Our public square is more socially located and more democratic, in a sense. If you go spout off in your local Starbucks or Tim Hortons or whatever, you might be held socially responsib

Public Safety committee  Through all of the whistle-blower data that has come out and from the whistle-blowers themselves who have told the story of what happens behind the scenes at Facebook, we've seen pretty conclusively that they identify problems like polarization and hate speech. When they propose

Public Safety committee  As far as I can tell, none of the legislation that has tried to address online harms has made a difference to people who are victimized by it. I mean, platforms may point and say they did this and they did that, but I dare say that if you ask people who use these platforms, they

Public Safety committee  We do not collect that kind of data ourselves. There are two sources of that data in Canada. The first is police-reported hate crime statistics. These are flawed because they don't capture a lot of the data. The best way we can measure hate crime and hate incidents in Canada i

Public Safety committee  That is correct. We took the report from somebody on the ground, and our chair put the information out there. I would say that we did see very similar messaging in Toronto. There was somebody who was wearing a billboard with essentially the same messaging.

Public Safety committee  We don't, and I am always very careful at every juncture to point out that not everybody who was involved in the convoy is necessarily racist or necessarily violent.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  If you look back at the Yellow Vests Canada movement, and this is well documented, you'll find hundreds of examples of death threats and racist comments towards Muslims. That's the Yellow Vests Canada movement that I just addressed. In terms of your earlier comment about the org

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Sure. Tamara Lich was in fact an organizer of United We Roll and she was one of the key organizers of the convoy. That's one example. Pat King [Inaudible—Editor] at the time of the convoy.