Thank you so much.
I think the fundamental message from people is that they're not against there being more funding for Canadian cultural content, but they don't want it to come at the cost of their individual choices or at the cost of their own content potentially being regulated in some ways by the CRTC.
There are a lot of ideas that get pushed around about how to set the system up equitably, but I think part of what makes the Bill C-11 conversation so difficult is that there's a lot we don't know about what the government intends or what the CRTC actually intends here. We would have much preferred if there were much clearer instructions about how the CanCon system was going to be redeveloped in this bill.
We recognize that some of that can't be done in the legislation, but we really have no idea how 1980s definitions of what is Canadian are going to be updated and who is going to be in and who is going to be out. We think it should be a fair system, equally accessible to creators creating for every platform across the Internet, for online creators as much as for more traditional legacy media.
Our concern with the way things are set up right now is that it seems to be aimed at a sort of maximalist capture of giving every power to the CRTC, with very little clarity about how they're going to be using it. That's why in my comments today I've really focused on what I think the most important remaining piece is, which is defending the experience that ordinary Internet users have, getting their content fully excluded and getting their feeds left alone.