Thank you, Mr. Menzies.
My follow-up to that, then, would be that Google went into a back room, entered into a deal with the government, and said that it would give $100 million to a collective of its choosing.
I find that very interesting. You have a big tech company that is going to ultimately determine which collective, if there are multiple, it is going to enter into this bargaining agreement with. It's going to hand the collective $100 million, and then that's supposed to go towards the perpetuation of news in the nation.
The minister has announced that the CBC has one-third of all the journalists in the country, and according to the regulations, we know that the money is supposed to be allocated according to the number of journalists in each office. The CBC, then, having one-third of the journalists in the country, would stand to gain $33 million. It already gains $1.4 billion in taxpayer money, and then it has access to another $400 million through advertising revenue and now the most recent Liberal announcement of $129 million in tax benefits.
I'm curious about the comment you made in your opening remarks with regard to the CBC and the fact that we actually can't level the playing field until it is omitted in terms of its ability to generate ad revenue. You also stated that it should be excluded from Bill C-18 or the $100 million that Google is granting. Can you comment on that further?