I was watching some of the previous committee meetings to get a sense of where things were and to get up to speed. I particularly appreciate the idea behind some of the Scandinavian countries to ensure information resilience and public literacy on this.
I think something that I see every day is that people don't understand the difference between a news report and an opinion article. Those are two completely different things, you know, but for some reason, that all sort of gets lumped into one because it appeared in the Ottawa Citizen or whatever. It's all one and the same in people's view. I think that journalists are, by their nature, storytellers, and I think we do a pretty abysmal job of telling our own story. What do we do? Why are we here? What is the purpose of journalists in a functioning democratic society? I think if we can distill that, that's a real win.
As for what this committee can do.... I mean, it's provincial jurisdiction because—God bless Canada and federalism—information literacy, media literacy, news literacy curricula and opportunities for that are where it's at.