Thank you.
Thank you very much for your intervention, Mr. Gingras. I'm trying to square some of the comments that have been made today versus my local reality. That's what I guess all human beings try to do. I was talking to my colleague who represents a riding just to the south of me, and my local reality is that there has been a destruction of purely local media outlets. First they were bought out by larger agglomerations. Then they just lost readership or viewership or what have you. But what's happened—at least in my experience, and Alex Nuttall has had the same experience—is that there's been this blossoming of local content by local people who see an opportunity. In my case, local newspapers were bought out by Metroland. Then there was a general consensus that they weren't really doing as good a job on the local news as the previous local independent newspapers were, so what crops up are either rival newspapers or, more recently, purely online offerings, which is the case of the Doppler in Huntsville, Ontario. In the case of radio, you have community radio that has stepped in with a lot of local programming.
Mr. O'Regan and I just have different experiences in this, perhaps. What I've seen is actually a blossoming, using the technology—Google is a good case in point—to express local news and to hold local politicians to account. That has actually blossomed in the last few years rather than the reverse.
I just wanted to get Google's take on this. You have a worldwide perspective and I have my local perspective. Maybe this would help animate the discussion.