Canadian Heritage committee  No. The investment will go into high-quality journalism when you have competition on the platforms, where they can't abuse the news companies by just sucking out the data and then putting the ads against the cheapest content possible, which is often harmful content. You need com

Canadian Heritage committee  It's very consistent. I think the only distinction is that there's a lot of attention here on the loss of traffic from Facebook when they moved early, frankly, to block all news. I think it's important to say that news was struggling before Bill C-18 was passed or before Faceboo

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree 100%. On the research and academic side, I've seen very important researchers.... A group at NYU here in the U.S. was blocked by Facebook from research it was trying to do, because it was seen as adversarial as it tried to expose some of the harms on the platform. On th

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a really good question. Thank you for asking it. Partially it's that our justice department is still investigating Apple. Unlike Amazon, Google and Facebook, they don't have a lawsuit yet from our justice department or a federal trade commissioner or our state AGs, who ar

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for that question. Most of the most interesting court cases are around antitrust and data abuse, so we know, and this was part of the study in Australia too, that the source of their market power and this imbalance in bargaining power is that they—Google and Facebook,

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. Thank you for having me, Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on behalf of Digital Content Next. DCN is the only trade group exclusively focused on the future of high-quality digital content companies that manage trusted, direct relationships with

Canadian Heritage committee  It's vitally important. I think it's one of the most important aspects of this bill—like in Australia—and this bill will accomplish that. The collective bargaining aspect of it is the critical piece. That's the linchpin, as I described it. At least what I've heard from Australia

Canadian Heritage committee  It will absolutely continue.

Canadian Heritage committee  “Links” is an exhausting, tiring talking point that's been fed, in particular, by Google. The word “links” doesn't appear anywhere in the bill. What matters here, and it mattered in Australia, is that the entire legislation is built off the imbalance in bargaining power that ex

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. You have a lot of discussion for the downstream harms, and that can be everything from censorship and bias to privacy, to where the actual dollars are going. I think it's across parties. I see it in the U.S., too. Upstream, it's the market power that is the common c

Canadian Heritage committee  That would obviously be a huge concern if that existed, but I don't see that at all in the bill, and I didn't see it in Australia, and it didn't play out that way either. The role of the CRTC is administrative in terms of if it gets to a certain point. More than likely it won't

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. We've seen that play out in all those areas. We've seen Google use their actual gatekeeping power to spread that information. On Search and on Gmail, they'll use their gatekeeper choke points to tell consumers and creators that this is going to break the Internet, or that t

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question. Especially over the last decade, what we've seen is that increasing strength and market power. We've tracked it from a dollars' perspective. They're getting sometimes 80% to 90% of the incremental growth in digital advertising. Literally f

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning, Chair Fry. I'm here on behalf of DCN. DCN is the only trade organization exclusively focused on the digital future, and dedicated to serving the unique and diverse needs of high-quality digital content companies that manage trusted, direct relationships with cons

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the international grand committee. I am the CEO of the U.S.-based trade association Digital Content Next, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak on behalf of high-quality digital publishers. We represent about 80 publishers globa