I should say that we haven't received any money at all from the government. We haven't really been all that aggressive about pursuing it because it didn't apply to us. We didn't qualify for the vast majority of the funding. So right now we're doing it with private friends and family money as well as private investors. But now with the Canada media fund, I think we will have an opportunity at least to apply for something for which we do qualify.
I think in principle, though, what the government funding should do for companies like mine is not to sustain them on an ongoing basis, because the goal here is not to have companies that need to rely on government funding indefinitely. The idea is to give them what they need to have what we call the “runway”--the time that they can run to make the mistakes that are necessary to learn, and to figure out, and to puzzle over these questions that nobody has yet figured out.
What is the business model for the book publishing industry? Nobody knows, but we're trying to figure something out for the news and information publishing industry. We need time, and time is, as they say, money, to pay staff and to just keep the lights on for a few months. That's where I would ask for you to consider ways in which funding could be allocated to companies, not to pay for computers because the costs related to that in the information industry is very low. You can get email from Google for free, and network from Google for free, and everything else for free. What we need most is money to keep the lights on for some amount of time, to learn what we need to learn so that we can be sustainable.