Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. I have 20 seconds left. Mr. Ripley, do you want to just pop in on that same question about jurisdiction?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks very much. I'll pick up where my colleague Mr. Uppal left off. First of all, Mr. Ripley, you keep talking about this survey that your department did. I'm wondering if you have some sort of summary or report that came out of that survey. Maybe you can provide it to the committee so that we can have use of it for our study.

Canadian Heritage committee  I so move.

Canadian Heritage committee  Can you—

Canadian Heritage committee  To finish up that thought, do you think the legislation should mandate that more money be put into news, or do you think the broadcasters should have more flexibility in what they put their money into?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. I want to return to the question I ended on the last time in terms of incentivizing news through broadcasters. You had a couple of ideas, like expanding the labour tax credit to television news. I'm wondering if this means that local news has to be supported by government.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would like you to expand on that and clarify for me exactly what you're talking about. Is it the definition of Canadian content that we want to address, or is it the amount that broadcasters like Shaw and Rogers have to spend on other types of content like dramas? Is that what you're saying?

Canadian Heritage committee  I know you suggested that the tax credit for journalism should be extended to broadcasters as well as print journalists. Can you just quickly go over any other ideas you may have to incentivize news, so that we have more local news coverage and broadcasters do more to promote local news?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'm going to pick up where my Conservative colleague left off, because as someone who was a news broadcaster up until about six months ago, I'm also concerned. I have witnessed how local news is diminished whenever there's a major consolidation of news networks.

Canadian Heritage committee  If Global News has to find a new source of income to produce its news, which is often a different type of news from what we see on Citytv, it's expected they'll go looking for that through the independent local news fund. If Global News takes a big chunk of that fund to continue its news operations, it's expected that other smaller stations will be affected and that there won't be as much money for them.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. I'll go back to the art gallery again. It looks like there's no problem with audience hesitancy at the art gallery. As soon as it was open, it was packed. However, we heard from a lot of arts organizations that there is hesitancy among the public to go back to live shows and congregate, for example.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to go in a different direction. Earlier, this committee heard from the Art Gallery of Hamilton. We know that this is the oldest municipal art gallery in Ontario. When it reopened late in the pandemic with new exhibitions, it was so popular that people were lined up out the door.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair, we heard from a lot of different witnesses at this committee that many artists and artistic organizations had to adapt to digital offerings during the pandemic. People relied on those digital offerings to get through the pandemic. For a lot of arts organizations, it was really a new thing to suddenly have a digital component to what they offer.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay, quickly, the online streaming act also has measures that would support journalism. Can you go over that really quickly?

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Also through you, Madam Chair—