For the context of our conversation today, the Australian system produced the expected and desired result. There are contracts that have agreed-upon terms with journalism organizations of all sizes, and the news out of Australia is that this is addressing the public policy challenge in that country.
That should be the outcome of Bill C-18, which we're considering today, and our suggested amendments seek to resolve the undue and unintended consequences of those items that I've identified and other items that we'll include in our submission to the committee to follow shortly.
In the context of other countries, what we see consistently is that if the enforcement mechanism is not thoroughly thought out, and thought out in the context of bad actors, it ends up being gamed and misused by bad actors. That has a negative consequence on the user experience and the discoverability of information, and then also acts in a contrary manner to the public policy goals of the legislation that was originally drafted.
We're very much in favour of this sort of conversation and continued deliberation about how to perfect Bill C-18 to arrive at our shared goals.