Thank you.
I flag that just because I still don't know that it provides a lot of clarity to eligible news businesses in terms of whether or not the news they're providing is going to fit within that. Nevertheless, I think you make a right distinction here. Clause 31 lets DNIs challenge whether a news outlet should or should not be eligible, whereas clause 27 sets out the eligible criteria to be scoped in as a news business.
The criteria that are outlined to be scoped in under clause 27 and the criteria that are assessed as to whether or not they should be eligible under clause 31 are different. This has actually been criticized by legal experts. Howard Law, formerly at Unifor, called it “an odd, backwards way to draft a statute”.
I'm curious to know why the criteria set out in clause 27 and the criteria set out in clause 31 are inconsistent with one another.