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Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to come to that. One of the problems with truth and falsehood grappling is that if you're in a filter bubble, you actually don't get exposed to the grapple very much. You get exposed to information that reinforces your views going in. I think that the issue isn't....

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. We've had two conversations with APTN. Carl had a conversation with Jean La Rose and Karyn Pugliese, and I had a conversation as well with Jean La Rose.

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't want to imply that they're responsible for this suggestion, but I certainly didn't want to blindside them and hear that no, they think this is a terrible idea. I think they would be concerned about the details and how it would unfold, but they're certainly interested in i

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  The estimates for 2016 showed $5.5 billion of digital advertising revenue in Canada. That was up from $4.5 billion in 2014. Of that, we would not be placing this 10% levy on those who pay taxes in Canada or those who invest more than 5% of their revenues into journalistic operati

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. “Commissioned” is an interesting verb. I'll clarify this as well as I can. We were asked initially if we might look into this issue by the department of heritage and by ISED. We said we were very interested in this issue and we would like to do this. We emphasized that we'

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  I think there were several journalists who went down that line. First off, I'd say I don't like public intervention either, but I also don't like media that are losing their accountability and civic responsibilities and their capacity to do that kind of work. I think that Andr

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  It is the same fund. We are suggesting that although the fund would be open to applications—and we would expect applications both for providing more capacity in what we call civic-function journalism and for supporting digital innovation—we aren't in the business of picking which

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, et merci, Monsieur Nantel. I will say that you're a more generous chair than some, because I was told that I'd have five to six minutes, so my presentation will perhaps be shorter than 10 minutes and not longer than that. In any case, I am pleased to be with you her

January 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Edward Greenspon