When people contribute to the National Observer or to the Vancouver Observer, which they've been doing for years through crowdfunding, and sometimes just through the fundraising campaigns we run....
I never know whether to call it a donation or a gift, but it's really a gift, because they can't get any tax credit for it. They're just giving a gift.
We believe that a lot of the reporting that we do, and that other media does as well, really is a public good. It's a public service. It's essential to the healthy functioning of a democracy. We believe that it would be great if the government could make it possible, without having to navigate really difficult laws that put you in a grey zone, to create a category for journalism that would allow foundations, for instance, to grant journalism companies, to work with journalism companies, to provide funding for, let's say, coverage of public health, coverage of life-and-death issues that they really are concerned about—charities that are in line with their mission. Right now they can't really do it because they don't know how to do it. There is no charitable structure for them to donate into.