I was just going to repeat the same things.
There are two other unique things about community media. We don't have the sound-bite limitations on time that commercial and public media have. We feel we can give our MPs unlimited air time. They don't get their messages filtered. Second, part of participating in a democracy is for ordinary people to learn to develop their voices. Just because you stick up a YouTube video doesn't mean you know how to express yourself properly or that you can express a minority point of view and you're not going to be attacked. Having community media centres that help people develop those voices so they can play a role in public discourse is critical, as is providing airtime for online public discourse so the whole community knows that conversations are going on.
If you look at the work we've done under the local journalism initiative at commediaportal.ca, you'll see a lot of those conversations. During the pandemic, we've had a lot of online Zoom conversations, for example, with people asking doctors questions about the vaccines and debating everything else going on in their communities. We can do long-form debate and support public discourse in a way the other sectors can't.