Senator Cardozo: My question is this: Do you not agree that what this bill will do is increase the amount of money that will go toward production of Canadian content, whether it be on the internet or other media, and that will be better than an uncontrolled system that simply increases the ability for hate, misogyny, division and all of that?

Hon. Andrew Cardozo: Senator Housakos, will you take a question from me, sir? Your speech helped me to understand what your concern is. I have had doubts about it myself. But I think that you really clarified it in my mind.

On the one hand, I think that you are seeing the algorithms as being as innocent as the driven snow and a government body appointed by an elected government as being the devil incarnate. I have a slightly different view of algorithms. We have heard about enormous hate, misogyny and anti-Semitism that has been promoted and received a high degree of attention through these algorithms. Controversy drives algorithms.