Certainly.
I think some of those concerns are what we're going to be looking for when we assess the final regulatory agreements that Heritage reaches with Google. I'm concerned that the government has essentially tried to create public support for news on the cheap without doing some of the work of establishing a truly transparent, open system to provide that support. Strong-arming platforms into forming agreements with news was an attempt to create the system without going through the hard transparency work.
I'm very concerned that in the final agreement, a group like Google will have considerable discretion over who is getting support and who isn't. It's either that Google will have a lot of discretion or a government-appointed body will have a lot of discretion, or both. I think Canadians deserve better. I think we need a system where it's very clear on what terms support is being allocated and who's getting it.