The 450 was for the last 10 years. For the pandemic it's 64. We touched on this a little before, with our colleague from the Conservative Party, when he mentioned the programs we put in place. We put in place a $600-million tax credit for news media. We also put $50 million for the regional press, because in some regions it disappeared. It's not there anymore. It's so important in some ridings, maybe not Montreal but in a region further away, where that's the only outlet that would cover what an MP would be doing in Ottawa, or a provincial MLA or municipal politician, so we put that $50 million in place. For the pandemic, we had $10 million over two years for the hiring and contracting of journalists in underserved communities across Canada.
One of the most important things we can do is to adopt the bill that is coming soon. Traditional media, newsrooms, will keep disappearing. You'll have more and more room for misinformation and disinformation. Through this bill, and I hope we'll be able to work together and adopt it, we're asking the big tech giants who are in quasi-monopoly situations to sit down and negotiate with news outlets—big ones, small ones, indigenous, regional, big cities, everywhere—in a market-based type of negotiation, where they have to come to a deal or else they will at the end of the process be forced to come to a deal through arbitration.
I think that can generate interesting sums of money for our news sector.