Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I did want to come back on the Conservative attempt to link people who are receiving legitimate funding from the federal government to somehow...something that should be brought to committee. We've had Conservative witnesses who get direct funding from big tech, and they are still able to testify despite that very clear conflict of interest.
I wanted to make that comment to start off, and then go to Ms. Saras-Voutsinas.
Thank you so much for being here today. Your organizational members do a huge service—we've seen this through the pandemic—in often reaching a wide variety. In my community, there are over 150 languages spoken, and many of the publications that are part of your organization have made a huge difference. I know that people have been struggling to keep alive those community newspapers that are in languages other than the official languages.
How important is it to have an owner-operator component so that people can access that funding even if the journalists are also owner-operators? If we don't put that component into the bill, what percentage of your publication members do you think would not be able to participate or may even shut down?