OAKVILLE, Ont. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to comment on the future of TikTok in the United States, at a time when his own party is leaning on the app and its influencers to deliver the Liberals' political message to Canadians.
"We know that the security, the privacy and the data protection of Canadians needs to be a first priority for us," Trudeau said on Wednesday. However, it is still used by the federal Liberal and New Democratic parties, which rely on it to reach young Canadians who increasingly flock to the app to discover news, information and popular culture.
TikTok is the fasting-growing social-media app in Canada, a report last year from Toronto Metropolitan University shows, but it is also considered the least trusted. He said officials told him about concerns around the app tracking him and his movement, noting that members of Parliament can be easily identified.
The Conservatives, too, complied with the directive, but they also"went a step further to suspend use of the app altogether," said Sebastian Skamski, a spokesman for Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre.
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