I think giving breaks is a great idea, but I think what is really needed.... I'm just going to go back to the Canadian periodical fund because we wouldn't be publishing without it. It is a very important part of what we receive in terms of income. I think, for community newspapers to thrive, there are a few things that need to happen. What we say at the Low Down to Hull and Back News is that if I can read it somewhere else it doesn't go in the Low Down. If there were a dedicated fund to community papers that served their specific communities in either language.... There are actually a lot of papers in the QCNA that publish in both English and French. If you read it there, you don't read it elsewhere. That could be a guideline for the Canadian periodical fund in terms of creating a community newspaper fund that is geared just toward that. When you compare what's given out to major media outlets like Rogers, like TV Guide.... TV Guide gets money from the Canada periodical fund. As a journalist with many years of experience, I find that surprising.
