Thank you for the question.
This will be consistent with my opening remarks and some of my comments earlier. The government needs to support a functioning marketplace for media. Absent a functioning marketplace, which we don't have due to the monopolistic practices of the foreign tech players, it needs to find ways to support independent voices across the country.
The current programs that are in place—the journalism tax credit, the funding through Bill C-18 and the LJI—are functioning measures absent a fully functioning marketplace.
I think Mr. Griffiths and I share almost the same vision but see different obstacles being the major problems in getting there. A diverse plurality of new and traditional voices across the news ecosystem in this country is needed and healthy for democracy. It's healthy for the future of journalism, and it's something we would all like, but it's not something that can be accomplished when the market has been perverted the way it has been. Until that reality is corrected, we will need to work together—government and private media—to make sure our industry continues.
