Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, et merci, Monsieur Nantel. I will say that you're a more generous chair than some, because I was told that I'd have five to six minutes, so my presentation will perhaps be shorter than 10 minutes and not longer than that. In any case, I am pleased to be with you her

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. “Commissioned” is an interesting verb. I'll clarify this as well as I can. We were asked initially if we might look into this issue by the department of heritage and by ISED. We said we were very interested in this issue and we would like to do this. We emphasized that we'

Canadian Heritage committee  I think there were several journalists who went down that line. First off, I'd say I don't like public intervention either, but I also don't like media that are losing their accountability and civic responsibilities and their capacity to do that kind of work. I think that Andr

Canadian Heritage committee  It is the same fund. We are suggesting that although the fund would be open to applications—and we would expect applications both for providing more capacity in what we call civic-function journalism and for supporting digital innovation—we aren't in the business of picking which

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. We've had two conversations with APTN. Carl had a conversation with Jean La Rose and Karyn Pugliese, and I had a conversation as well with Jean La Rose.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't want to imply that they're responsible for this suggestion, but I certainly didn't want to blindside them and hear that no, they think this is a terrible idea. I think they would be concerned about the details and how it would unfold, but they're certainly interested in i

Canadian Heritage committee  The estimates for 2016 showed $5.5 billion of digital advertising revenue in Canada. That was up from $4.5 billion in 2014. Of that, we would not be placing this 10% levy on those who pay taxes in Canada or those who invest more than 5% of their revenues into journalistic operati

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Van Loan. I'd say that I'm first off sensitive to the history, having spent a good part of my career in George Brown's descendent newspaper. The days that you speak of have been referred to in the academic materials as the libertarian age of the p

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to come to that. One of the problems with truth and falsehood grappling is that if you're in a filter bubble, you actually don't get exposed to the grapple very much. You get exposed to information that reinforces your views going in. I think that the issue isn't....

Canadian Heritage committee  Could you clarify for a second? By “that figure”, do you mean the amount that would be deducted?

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. Let me take a little run at trying to explain the circumstances around why we don't know that number, if you will. What section 19 does is it takes away the normal-course business operations of any business for non-Canadian-owned publications. It's slightly different for

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me take your first question first, and I'll try to be as quick as I can. I think there are two colliding principles. It's unfortunate that they're colliding, but they are. One is journalism, news media. We all want it to stay as far away from government as possible. As you s

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, you know, many countries, as I've said, have got rid of the unevenness on VAT or sales tax. Many countries have opened up and made it easier for philanthropic organizations to invest. There's no such thing as a kind of section 19 in any country in the world. There are some

Canadian Heritage committee  I would think in a sense that we've given it a boost to try to find answers. It's incumbent upon companies and individuals to find these answers. Some companies have been innovative. I'm sure you've heard from La Presse. They've been very innovative and very impressive. The great

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, what do we do about Google and Facebook? I have mentioned that they were responsible for 82.4% of the ad impressions in the quarter that was measured, and in the United States, in the quarter that we talk about in the report, there was a $2.7 billion growth in revenue year o