Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know him personally, but I know who he is.

Canadian Heritage committee  We're in the process. We're quite a long way down that path. The viewer comes first. The objective is to be able to deliver more news over all the platforms consumers engage in. In order to be able to make that work, we have had to become more efficient in many areas. One is sharing infrastructure across news teams.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have newsrooms in multiple cities.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, that's not what we're—

Canadian Heritage committee  No. We're streamlining the number of newsrooms we have and making sure that journalists, for example, aren't dedicated to one show at one particular time of day. Now we have journalists who cover news as it happens and file those stories with whatever show it is, whether that's on television or on any digital platform that's the most relevant for that particular story.

Canadian Heritage committee  Is that the Online News Act? No, Bill C-11 is the Online Streaming Act. We did support the act in the sense that it was a good step towards fixing the broader issues, but it's only one step. Far more is required.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Again, that's just one step, but a broader discussion is required in terms of levelling the playing field between the Canadian broadcasters and the major Internet platforms that derive so much revenue from Canadian consumers without contributing back to the ecosystem.

Canadian Heritage committee  I encourage—

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, may I have one more quick one?

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd just encourage all the honourable members to engage with the CTV News app, where there is news at all times of the day.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's correct. We discussed the process that we would use with our unionized employees, and that process was endorsed by Unifor. I can unpack that for you, but I'm mindful of time.

Canadian Heritage committee  I will with pleasure. About 800 unionized positions were removed from the Bell workforce, and 61% of those affected employees actually took a voluntary separation package. They said they were willing to go, and so that's an important factor here. As it relates to the union process, over five weeks we had 10 days of meetings with union representatives to present the initiatives we would undertake.

Canadian Heritage committee  You would have to ask. I can't speak for Unifor.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sharing the facts with the committee because the facts are important. We want to treat the unionized employees with care. Unifor has indicated that we have 19,000 unionized employees, so they are an important part of our workforce. We have actually grown the unionized membership on the communication side through hiring more field technicians—which are high-paying jobs—because we have invested so much in building fibre Internet, and consumers are buying the service because it's world-leading technology.

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