When we looked into the issue of providing some mechanism to support Canadian journalism and what key things we wanted to ensure were supported, what we found in our research and was pointed out to us is the possibility of the loss of local news organizations, which for many people are the only sources of information about their communities, as well as the loss of coverage of Canadian news, which is important for the purposes of allowing Canadians to make decisions about things that are important to their lives.
In particular, one thing that came up throughout our work is the importance of journalism organizations in a democratic society to holding powerful actors and powerful institutions to account, which is why you see, in the general definition, that emphasis on coverage of democratic institutions, without narrowing it down to only political news organizations.
In the design of a tax measure, one thing we seek to do is ensure it's properly targeted. If you design a tax measure that is too broad, first, it will dramatically increase the cost of the measure; second, you won't necessarily be supporting the things that you want to target.
I think we recognize that there is, certainly, value in many of the publications that are out there. I don't mean to suggest—if I did in my previous testimony—that an organization that produces information with respect to the arts community is in some way not worthy of support. I think what we're trying to do in the design of these tax measures is more narrowly target organizations that are providing news and general information and coverage of democratic institutions, for the reasons that I've just explained.