Thank you.
Right now, under Bill C-18.... I'm sorry; I should not say that.
Google has managed to get an exemption from Bill C-18 and has offered $100 million to the news sector in exchange for that exemption. It is proposed by the PBO, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, that about a third of that funding is going to go to the CBC, which is already a publicly funded broadcaster to the tune of $1.4 billion and has another $400 million in ad revenue and subscriptions.
What does this do to the overall news media market and its future in this country, when big tech and big government collude to give one-third of this money to a public broadcaster?