Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for being so attentive and thank you for all your questions. We shall give the witnesses a moment to leave.

Canadian Heritage committee  The Canadian Press has existed as long as I've been either in public life or in the newspaper business, because we just can't put people in every location for stories, so it's really a pooling by all papers in Canada. We all belong to Canadian Press to get those stories. In fact,

Canadian Heritage committee  We realize that the quality of journalism is extremely important. If we let the quality of journalism slip, we're going to lose readers quickly.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to let Gerry Nott answer that, because he was the editor of the Ottawa Citizen and publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, and now he's in charge of content for the whole country. I think he would do the question more justice than I would.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the apps make it easier for readers to get to the content they want. There is no doubt that if people want to find a specific story on a specific date, they can google your name or my name or Mr. Vaughan's name, and they will get a big rundown of all the comments. We try

Canadian Heritage committee  I think digital news will continue to grow. I think as the next generations come along, there's no doubt that people will continue to see it on the websites and on the tablets, but I think the smart phone is the one that is galloping away with the eyeballs more quickly than anyth

Canadian Heritage committee  We use many of the websites. We do business with Google. The reason we do business with Google is that you have to do business with Google, because they do provide access to our site. But that doesn't solve our problems. We're not here to be critical of Google. In many ways we a

Canadian Heritage committee  Look, there's no doubt. You can call it a rose; by any other colour it's still a rose. I totally understand that. The committee invited me here to ask what some solutions would be. I could have come here just to state what the problems are and say, “Okay, here are the problems.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, and when you have the opportunity, and that's why newspapers started off...and it's probably due to our own delay in thinking. Back when we had a recession, everyone thought the fall-off in print advertising was totally caused by the recession. It wasn't; there was a struc

Canadian Heritage committee  I was going to make the point that most newspapers today, because of the drop in the bottom line and the cutbacks they've made, can't compete with the Googles of the world. To give you one example, Google's been around for 18 years and, god bless them, you have to congratulate t

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a very important question. I think it is a balancing act. I guess the same thing could be said about how a government could subsidize or lend any money to General Motors and Chrysler over the years. It's groundbreaking, in many ways. I looked at this thing, and I said,

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess I'm at an age in life—I don't mind saying it, I'm 77 years old—and always liked a challenge in life. I'm a great believer that it is important that a democratic country should have a media component that's available to challenge people, to challenge government, to challen

Canadian Heritage committee  I can only drive one car at a time. I only have as many suits as I want at the present time. The whole aspect of this is to seek a solution.

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe this thing can be tailored in any way possible. I know that there is some adversity in saying “buy Canadian”. I think we do things as a country in many fields to protect industries. The Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario we know asked for a bailout for

Canadian Heritage committee  There's nothing to stop that.