Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thanks to folks for moving along in terms of clauses. That's very helpful, so we can spend more time on the amendments and less time on voting on each of the clauses.
Amendment NDP-22 was suggested by FRIENDS, which is a national organization that provides a lot of support for CBC and public broadcasting. This is an issue of ensuring transparency and ensuring that there's more information available, which will help to improve the calibre of the agreements that are signed and the ability, of course, particularly of smaller news organizations or, as we saw in the Australian model, organizations like Country Press Australia, which groups together dozens of small newspapers across Australia. Having that information is a very important aspect of ensuring there is a level playing field for negotiations with big tech....
What this amendment would seek to do is ensure that a copy of the agreement is filed within 30 days of the date an eligible news business enters into an agreement or 30 days after the day on which an arbitration panel makes a decision, and that the commission would publish that agreement on its website as well. So it ensures more transparency and it ensures the ability of particularly the small players to know the extent of agreements that are being signed, so that they can more effectively negotiate as well.
With that noted, I move amendment NDP-22.