Mr. Waugh, I won't speak to the PBO report that is the source of the numbers you cited. That was not a department-led initiative.
The internal modelling that we did when we tabled the bill and mentioned it in our technical briefings was more around a $150-million impact. That was based on how this played out in Australia and making some assumptions about how it might play out here. With respect to the PBO report, any questions about that particular number would have to be directed towards them.
The bill is not prescriptive about the proportion of the contributions that should go to different media, Mr. Waugh. One thing the government did and in part that was a response to what we saw in Australia was to put down a very strong marker in clause 7 about the importance of independent media, recognizing that we do have a very consolidated sector here in Canada. It certainly is not the government's intent that the contributions, the agreements, be only made with those big consolidated players. On the contrary, the government's position is that, in order to benefit from an exemption, those agreements have to cover independent businesses and the variety of other factors that have been put down in clause 11.