Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  I think giving breaks is a great idea, but I think what is really needed.... I'm just going to go back to the Canadian periodical fund because we wouldn't be publishing without it. It is a very important part of what we receive in terms of income. I think, for community newspaper

Official Languages committee  In relative terms, what small community papers receive is so minimal that in order for there to be genuine news—we are a very spread-out country—the only way for people to actually be informed about what's going on is via real journalists. It's just as simple as that.

Official Languages committee  We do regular surveys of our readership. Of the 40,000 residents in our reading area, we reach up to 10,000 in our readership every single week. We may only sell 2,500 to 3,000 papers, but our readership is very powerful. We did a survey last year. We discovered that in fact what

Official Languages committee  In the whole province? Are we talking about minority anglophone papers?

Official Languages committee  There are about 40.

Official Languages committee  Almost everybody is a member. You were speaking about it earlier. It's the Quebec Community Newspapers Association, which has also had its fair share of challenges over the past few years because of the digital movement. It is still in existence and the papers are still in there.

Official Languages committee  Thank you. My comments are along the same lines, but from the perspective of anglophones. Thank you for the invitation to speak. I'm Melanie Scott, editor of the Low Down to Hull & Back News, a weekly community paper based in Wakefield, Quebec, just north of Gatineau. We s