An NDP motion tabled by Ethics Critic Charlie Angus (Timmins – James Bay) passed unanimously yesterday at the joint meeting of the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy and the House of Commons Ethics Committee.<\/p>\n
The motion called on the committee\u2019s chair to issue a legal summons to Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg when they next set foot on Canadian soil after they failed to appear today to answer for Facebook before 11 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a matter of basic corporate accountability,\u201d said Angus. \u201cIt was shocking that Facebook\u2019s founder and Chief Operating Officer refused to take responsibility for their company and appear personally to answer serious questions about privacy and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n The International Grand Committee, which includes the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Mexico, is meeting days after the Liberal government announced a toothless \u2018digital charter\u2019 that does nothing to rein in the American tech giants that dominate social media, advertising and many other areas of the digital economy.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there ever was a wake-up call to the Liberal government that has spent four years asleep at the wheel on the serious issues posed by the tech platforms, it should be Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s insult to the international community,\u201d said Angus. \u201cWe will keep fighting to protect citizens\u2019 privacy and democratic rights from the platforms and put an end to the Wild West of self-regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An NDP motion tabled by Ethics Critic Charlie Angus (Timmins – James Bay) passed unanimously yesterday at the joint meeting of the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy and the House of Commons Ethics Committee. The motion called on the committee\u2019s chair to issue a legal summons to Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 08:44:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21742,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741\/revisions\/21742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}