Canadian Heritage committee  Good luck to you in your operations.

Canadian Heritage committee  Everything is the issue. I'd like anything that makes it harder for people to take not just your words—we know plagiarism is direct copy—but the essence of your work and represent it as theirs. This is done by a great many big and extremely profitable operations, but they're prof

Canadian Heritage committee  Tasha is a good example. She is paid for her column on a weekly basis, and she does one for us and one for the National Post at the same rate. She also has a radio show. She's stringing together a life, a little bit here, a little bit there. The term in the news business is “stri

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not here saying you should pull back the cheque. I'm saying that the unfettered CBC will take money and it will plunk it close to the manager to whom it's assigned. That will be people in Toronto, people in Ottawa, or people in Vancouver, and it will not get out to your areas

Canadian Heritage committee  In the digital space, it should be put in rural markets where there is a lack of resources being put by Metroland and others. I would also say don't take advertising. Give them enough money that they don't have to come in and take our advertising. I would say charge a nominal sub

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, we do have to pay them. Realistically, they do have to be paid.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not a competitive market. The CBC gets money from the cable fund. They get money from you, and they get money directly from the GR.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  What is the name of the magazine?

Canadian Heritage committee  At this juncture, we are about 60:40 subscription. The subscription is about half from individuals and half from the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia, the Government of Alberta, large law firms, and that sort of thing.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's about 40%.

Canadian Heritage committee  We do not. I think the only time we did was in the 2011 election. I am trying to remember how we worded the policy. It was things like Elections Canada, which have a public service message. The culture of the government had turned so much that any advertising seemed partisan, so

Canadian Heritage committee  There are a lot of people and a lot of foundations.... You can look at what's happening in the U.S. There are some very interesting funding models for groups like GroundTruth, which is a foreign correspondence network based in Boston. There is ProPublica, which does investigative

Canadian Heritage committee  You want to keep the advocacy out, but I think if there are people who can get into it, they should, and the government could match that if it wanted to.

Canadian Heritage committee  I come from a bit of a culture where failure is not defeat. Lots of things will be tried, and lots of things will fail, and that's okay. I think you need a bankruptcy act that is gentle on entrepreneurs who have tried to do something in this space. The American culture of entrepr