Canadian Heritage committee  With respect to your specific question, as Sabrina has indicated, these are A/B tests whereby we're basically trying to ascertain what the product impact is. To be clear, this is our attempt to be responsible. This is why companies do A/B testing. They want to understand fully wh

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, the important element to raise here is that product tests simply no longer service links to websites per se. Again, all of this information is still accessible by any other means, and this is normal course. This is generally how technology companies will test potential pro

Canadian Heritage committee  The test is scheduled to end on March 16.

Canadian Heritage committee  They were identified as Canadians predominantly by their IP address. Other than that, it's completely randomized, using basic technological systems to do so.

Canadian Heritage committee  As part of the normal course, product teams, legal teams and other experts, including, where appropriate, leadership, will conduct assessments with respect to what the potential impacts of legislative initiatives like Bill C-18 might be. In the case of Bill C-18—

Canadian Heritage committee  In the case of Bill C-18, the effort was to utilize that bill—

Canadian Heritage committee  It was effectively an effort, utilizing our experience and partnerships teams, to identify what would constitute Canadian news organizations and Canadian news domains—

Canadian Heritage committee  The Google news showcase commercial arrangements had no bearing on the application of the test. Again, those are not secret, nor is the test. The specific definitions of eligible news business and the application of Bill C-18 were the basis on which the tests were being undertak

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to do the solemn affirmation, please.

Canadian Heritage committee  I, Jason Kee, do solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm and declare the taking of any oath is, according to my religious belief, unlawful. I do also solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm and declare that the evidence I shall give on this examination shall be the truth, the whole tru

Canadian Heritage committee  As Sabrina indicated, the Taiwanese example is precisely the approach that we would like to adopt. It's precisely the approach to ensure that we are providing funding to, again, local and regional papers, the small players, and maybe also to those who are doing really interesting

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Essentially, the core concern of the structure of this bill versus, say, the adoption of a fund or a similar model is that using links as the basis for payment actually has the potential to incentivize clickbait journalism. Also, it will nationally benefit the larger

Canadian Heritage committee  No, not remotely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Certainly, Mr. Champoux, the introduction of the new code of ethics requirements was appreciated, but, as Ms. Geremia acknowledged, the challenge is that it does not apply evenly to all the different classes of all the news businesses that were being developed. We h

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Again, this is actually an innovative model that we welcome, that we encourage other jurisdictions to consider and adopt. We have consistently supported the concept of a fund, certainly throughout the Bill C-18 process. In our view, it is a way of resolving some of th