Thank you very much.
We have a hard stop today at 3 p.m.
I wanted to say as a chair observing and listening to what was going on that I have heard repeatedly people asking about journalism. I think when we did a study back in 2017 of the very issue, I chaired the heritage committee then. What was very clear was that so-called news companies in Canada have very different rules that they must follow. Their news must be verifiable, and it must be careful not to call names or issue threats, so it has certain things it must do under the Criminal Code.
I think there is a great concern here about whether this applies to companies like Google, Facebook or Meta in terms of their own ability. We live in an age of disinformation. Do they have the same international constraints on being verifiable and accountable to the people in printing news? That's a question I wanted to ask.