I guess that's the circle we're trying to square here as a committee. It's difficult. People have made their choices about whether or not they want to pay 99¢, as my colleague mentioned, for a newspaper subscription, but they have no problem paying $7.99 a month for Netflix.
We want Canadian content and we want to make sure it's represented, yet at the same time people seem to be voting with their mouses and their keyboards, clicking on exactly what they want.
I look at the number of subsidies that are given. I don't contest it; I'm just trying to figure it out.
For instance, a number of your community newspapers receive funding from the Canadian periodical fund, and cumulatively it's a fair amount, but when you look at it, it's a small amount for each one of them—$25,000 to $40,000—and it does make a big difference to those newspapers. I grew up in a small town; I know what it is to have and rely upon a community newspaper, even if it has evolved to a website.
How do we—and I would ask the same question of Bombardier or anybody—justify taxpayers' dollars, in a free market area, subsidizing certain industries or companies, when the people are choosing somewhere else, whether it be within the country or exceedingly, it appears, outside it?