I am a small media organization. I don't want money through this program, and I don't want money through the government. I want to be able to be a self-sustaining business.
I have to take some exception, because I think some of the witnesses here have misrepresented what I've said.
Mr. Sims, I didn't say that money went only to Murdoch organizations; I said that the bulk of the money went to Murdoch-based organizations. Your testimony said, “Oh, I don't know.” Do you think that the bulk of the money in this Canadian law isn't going to go to zombie organizations like Postmedia? Of course it will. They have the size, the mass, the incumbency and the legal ability to be able to negotiate for more.
Second, I didn't say that it was a lie that media organizations were struggling. Of course they're struggling. We all know that. What is a lie here is that the media organizations don't benefit from the links involved. The media organizations disproportionately benefit from the links.