Canadian Heritage committee  I think a fund could help. Publications must be able to respond to the criteria that the government defines.

Canadian Heritage committee  Of course. The members of our organization need training workshops to learn about what the digital revolution means in our day and age. At the same time, they have to be encouraged to look for new advertising revenue. Newspapers could offer their clients an advertisement on thei

Canadian Heritage committee  Of course.

Canadian Heritage committee  You know, it's a little bit of everything. Most of our members are print media. Some have websites that do not work and that are not at all up to today's realities. It is fashionable for a newspaper to have a website, but there is no comparison between the content of a newspaper

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me tell you a bit about the reality of many of the ethnic media in the different communities. We have some examples here. The most important example is a very tiny monthly publication that has 12 pages. That magazine is produced by one or two people. There is no board of edit

Canadian Heritage committee  May I say something?

Canadian Heritage committee  I want to say that many of our members are working as journalists at the same time that they have another job in order to have money for their daily lives. They put money from other jobs into publishing the newspaper because they love it, and because they suffered from the lack o