Official Languages committee  Let me tell you something. As you know, I have four newspapers—

Official Languages committee  —but we're here for this one. My partner was very savvy. We went onto the Internet back in 1996. We were on the Internet, but it wasn't bringing in any revenue. It was just an extra thing. The website of the North Shore News is the whole paper in PDF, because we don't have the

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  Do you want something concrete?

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Ms. Lapointe. I'm sure you have a big staff that's been looking at how they're going to help us, but whatever they do, I think it should be based on content, real content, local content, and not content that people buy from Reuters, The Canadian Press, and stuff like

Official Languages committee  That's what I believe.

Official Languages committee  I don't know if it will be two weeks or three weeks or a month, but believe me, we have been cutting staff. Things are really, really hard. On that I speak for at least all the papers of the QCNA, of which we are members.

Official Languages committee  Just to give you an example, for eight months I've had to play the secretary, and believe me, I'm not handsome enough for that.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Usually I don't have papers in front of me, but because I talk too much, I need to have papers. It is a privilege and honour for me to be invited by your committee and to have the opportunity to address the viability of official languages newspapers. I w

Official Languages committee  Exactly. My words and comments reflect the words and comments of all publishers and owners of official languages newspapers. We all work really hard, with great passion, to keep our newspapers alive in order to continue to cover, with journalistic integrity, our local communitie