I think it's very important that we move this bill forward. If global platforms are really the way for all Canadians to access content in five years, we'll clearly be facing a serious problem. Those big global platforms pay no taxes in Canada. Canada derives no tax benefit from the revenue they earn.
Furthermore, they're the ones that will have the last word about our cultural sovereignty. That will mean major decisions concerning the content that's offered. The algorithms that direct Canadians to content via various apps are created outside the country for global platforms. Those major platforms are therefore of no particular interest to Canada.
It's important that we begin to supervise this ecosystem to ensure the discoverability of Canadian content. We have to see to it that Canada and Canadians have access to Canadian programmers, not programmers who sign global, worldwide agreements with certain services.
Consider Stingray, for example. It's very hard to access its global platforms because it tends to sign agreements with Spotify, among others. Those decisions are made outside Canada. All Canadian artists, creators and broadcasters will therefore be in trouble if we can't quickly oversee the major global platforms ecosystem.