The legislation before us addresses a policy challenge that was identified two years ago: the threat to existing journalism organizations in Canada. It attempts to create a regulatory framework to address that.
We heard today, from the other witnesses, that there are many strategies and possible solutions to help bridge into a future generation of journalism.
Not only is Google an advertising platform, but we're also a partner with journalists. Through our Google news initiative, we are working with them, as Mr. Myles described, to understand how readers are changing their behaviours, and how to capture revenue and information from that behaviour. For us, Bill C-18 addresses an immediate problem, but, as Mr. Scott identified, it does not solve for the future.
That's the challenge before you today.