Canadian Heritage committee  The problem's heading north.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. I just think it's outside the purview of our study—

Canadian Heritage committee  —but it's obvious that what we recommend around HST would apply to Netflix too.

Canadian Heritage committee  And it has, in all the other countries that have any service that's delivered digitally.

Canadian Heritage committee  I joined after the 1930s.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. There's more space for editorials. I have some sympathy and some lack of sympathy. When I was in the newspaper business, I think I was on the reform end. I was the advocate and founding editor of theglobeandmail.com, and I think the newspaper industry.... I can do glass ha

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, but I didn't hear the last of the words. How would this agency distribute funds...?

Canadian Heritage committee  I purposely didn't want to go too deeply into that, because I feel that if this agency is set up, people are going to have to operate this agency, and they're not going to be me, and how they're going to make their determinations, I believe, will be based on precedents in other f

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

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  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  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