Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Yes, we have engaged extensively with the minister's office and a number of others with respect to our key concerns. As Sabrina indicated, we've been quite transparent and certainly in our view have offered a range of potential solutions to find a reasonable solve for

Canadian Heritage committee  No, at least during the course of the legislative review period of the bill, none of the amendments that we proposed to resolve our core concerns—again predominantly around making the availability of news very broad, including linking, and with respect to concerns about the eligi

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. As Sabrina indicated—and this is important to constantly reiterate—this is just a test. There has been no decision made with respect to the outcome of the test. We are literally in a process of trying to gather information to ascertain what the potential impacts of Bi

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. I would be happy to. This is actually a news innovation fund we've launched in collaboration and in partnership with the Taiwanese government. It is essentially a product of extensive engagement and conversations with respect to the government, which also, like the Ca

Canadian Heritage committee  Companies frequently use hypothesis-driven tests, also known as A/B testing, on a small percentage of real users to collect data about new features or changes before deciding whether to launch them at scale. Google runs over 11,500 tests each year to assess potential changes to

Information & Ethics committee  Not remotely.

Information & Ethics committee  There are several things there. Number one, if that were the case, it's puzzling as to why we would take a decision that is costing us money, insofar as we're no longer earning revenue from a class of ads. More importantly, vis-à-vis our publisher partners, vis-à-vis YouTube cr

Information & Ethics committee  We paid over $13 billion out to websites last year alone.

Information & Ethics committee  We're not a publisher.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, because we operate under a partnership model, where we're actually paying out to creators and we're paying out to these publishers—

Information & Ethics committee  We have thousands of music licence agreements in place with all the major collectives, record labels, etc., where we paid out over $6 billion to the music industry last year.

Information & Ethics committee  That was through YouTube alone. That's not actually talking about our other services.

Information & Ethics committee  That's in addition to the over $13 billion we paid out to publishers who are showing our ads. As we said, our fundamental model is a partnership model.

Information & Ethics committee  We will continue to engage with them. We treat them as partners, and we'll do that.

Information & Ethics committee  We will continue to engage and we have a partnership with them.