Canadian Heritage committee  First off, we're are not a brand new organization. We've been around for 13 years.

Canadian Heritage committee  We've been around for 13 years.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's hard to make the kind of very specific recommendations that other witnesses here today can make, because they have so many existing types of support and whatnot, whereas we operate in a field where there isn't a lot of support, a lot of legislation, or a lot of precedent. C

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  We did do a small amount. Most of our reporting is text-based, but we do some video.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's a separate organization that we have a relationship with. It produces a longer forum series, a solutions journalism series, and The Tyee is a guaranteed publisher, but not an exclusive publisher. We've collaborated with CBC Radio and NBC. We've collaborated with the W

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's a limited partnership. We have two investors.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's right.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say we're fairly unique, yes. There are not a lot of players in this space yet. There are certainly more examples in the United States and through Europe of the kind of thing we do. Canada is a little bit behind, I would say, in this field.

Canadian Heritage committee  No.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can think of one provincial government ad that was placed in the last few years. I can't point to the government and say that they have purposely not advertised with us, but I have been, for most of the 13 years, the entire business department of The Tyee, with one third of m

Canadian Heritage committee  —with small independents. It's pretty difficult. I can't say that there's been an explicit intention not to advertise with us, but it's difficult.

Canadian Heritage committee  The Tyee now has an operating budget of around $1 million. The Tyee Solutions Society operates project by project with contract staff, so its budget really fluctuates every year, depending on what projects it has raised money for.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's a lot. It's hard for us to make recommendations for both the traditional media and ourselves. Trying to operate the way we do is quite different .

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess I would urge the committee to look for solutions that are beneficial to public interest journalism, regardless of what kind of business model it operates within. I'd like to see solutions that benefit the function within traditional media of public interest journalism. Th