Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to be quick.
First of all, I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today and sharing this testimony with us.
It's very, very important to hear from you. One thing I am reflecting on is the fact that with all of the stories you're telling us, I recognize that we very clearly have journalists with us, because there is a component of storytelling that I think has seized our imagination.
In my thinking of how we go forward with this, my colleague, Mr. Trudel, just brought up the fact that there's very little that Canada can do sometimes, or there are limits to what Canada can do. Of course, it is always better to be in the situation where we are able to prevent something from happening then condemning it once it has already occurred.
I was thinking a little bit about how we work with our media in Canada and around the world, and the model of how we pay for media—the model of advertising.
In the previous panel, Maria Ressa talked about how she worked for the International Fund for Public Interest Media and the way we can turn that on its head.
I'd love to get some information, so perhaps I can start with you, Ms. Pulfer.
How could we fund media? How can we ensure that media are able to continue without that advertising model which, with Facebook and other social media, makes our journalists so vulnerable.