Finance committee  I will. Thank you.

Finance committee  I will give you a quick example for trying to save newspapers. Jerry just listed how many have closed in the last few years. All newspapers have significant printing costs. We print most of our papers with Transcontinental from Montreal, which has major printing plants across the

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  When you look at what's happening around the world, various countries are trying to put pressure on Google and Facebook to deal more fairly. In Australia, they're trying to do it through compelling the platforms to come to the table for a conversation about sharing some of the ad

Finance committee  Yes. I'm sorry. Was I supposed to get a translation of that? I didn't get it.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  I'm not hearing it in English, no.

Finance committee  Yes, I probably am. I'll go to French.

Finance committee  I'm supposed to be on the channel, but I'm not. I'm sorry.

Finance committee  Okay.

Finance committee  The truth is that with regard to the $30 million that was promised to be spent in Canada, I spoke to the heritage minister, and he assured me that 90% of that money would be spent with Canadian publishers and broadcasters, so I'm assuming that a lot of it has gone to TV and radio

Finance committee  Hello. Thank you for asking me to speak today. I've been publisher and CEO of the Globe for the last 21 years. I'm also co-chair of The Canadian Press, so I'm wearing two hats today. The Globe is privately held by Woodbridge, which is the holding company for the Thomson famil

Canadian Heritage committee  We will find better ways of doing it, which will help the advertising revenue. However, as you know, the big global players soak up a lot of that digital revenue anyway. We're playing for much smaller percentages of the pie.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's more to do with the ad revenue rather than the reach. People's preferences for reading on those devices won't change; we just have to be better at delivering. We're working constantly to improve our speed. On a device like that, if you don't capture people's attention in the

Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of the global trends, wherever you look in major markets, the forecasts for 2017 are for continued very rapid growth in digital ad spend, driven by mobile. Consumption on desktop is declining, and the preference to read on smaller devices is growing fast, which is a chal