Karim Bardeesy

Mr. Speaker, housing with health care supports attached means more health, more dignified living and safer communities for all. In south Parkdale, it is happening. Dunn House, a project of the University Health Network, in partnership with Fred Victor, United Way Greater Toronto, West Neighbourhood House, 51 residents and their neighbours on Dunn Avenue and across south Parkdale, is delivering [more]

Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we are very invested in the artificial intelligence sector in Quebec, especially in Montreal. We are working with the famous researcher, Yoshua Bengio to accelerate responsible AI. This is a very important initiative. It is something that connects us with Europe and it is something that will help Canadians and Quebeckers gain more confidence in artificial [more]

Mr. Speaker, we have the biggest companies on earth with the most sophisticated attention-holding technologies known to humanity, and we have a kid with a phone. There are the most dazzling, seductive, funny, curiosity-inducing images, texts and videos, and there is a family at the dinner table, hunched and shrouded in a blue glow, or there is a classroom of semibored learners. There is a [more]

Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated my colleague's speech. University—Rosedale In our riding of Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park, we held a round table, as well as a round table with the member for. The member mentioned a gathering he is hosting in Scarborough—Woburn on Friday. I wonder if he could share more details about why he has chosen to engage parents in this way and what he expects to hear.

Mr. Speaker, my colleague pointed to the flexibility around the digital safety commission. I wonder if she could expound on why it would be important for the digital safety commission to have the powers and the flexibility it needs to adapt to new and emerging technologies.

Mr. Speaker, anything we can do to reduce people's dependence on social media will be helpful. The commission's role is to publish research and review social media platforms' plans. In my opinion, the commission will enable us to help social media platforms be more positive and earn people's trust.

Mr. Speaker, there are going to be lots of places that do that, like through the commission and through the regulations that may come out of the act. I think it is important to have transparency. We do not have transparency at the moment. In fact, we have had the opposite of transparency. We have had the intentional obfuscation or intentional suppression of what some of these platforms are doing. [more]

Mr. Speaker, as it stands, parents and teenagers themselves lack the necessary tools. Two or three years ago, my family met with other parents in our neighbourhood to share advice on how our four families could work together to help our children deal with these issues, while also helping us as parents navigate them. Teenagers and children are not the only ones affected by social media and its [more]

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate and identify with many of the desires of the freedom of speech and the fundamental protections that exist in the charter. We have provisions in our hate crimes legislation that are very clear about the difference between, for instance, speech that seeks to vilify or dehumanize and other forms of speech. I believe the existing pieces of legislation we have will be looked [more]

Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to my colleague's speech; she has so much commitment and expertise on this issue. I am wondering if she could expound on a point she made in her speech around the inability or the unwillingness of companies that have been faced with these issues, the research in front of them and the increasingly concerning effects being caused by their technologies. [more]