Canadian Heritage committee  What example do you have that are different?

Canadian Heritage committee  Are your referring to something like OMNI, or a broadcaster like that, which has...?

Canadian Heritage committee  I think there are a lot of good examples like OMNI, which is a strong public service. There are a lot of other broadcasters that are trying to get in and are now doing things like IPTV, because they can't sell ad dollars. There's a lot of opportunity for us to use the broadcastin

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes—me personally, and the organization did.

Canadian Heritage committee  No one's seen that deal because it's a cabinet secret under the Investment Canada Act, so I can only speak to the press announcements that you talk about. Canadian broadcasters that are licensed by the CRTC have something called a Canadian programming expenditure requirement. It'

Canadian Heritage committee  I wouldn't include Netflix in that statement, but companies like Facebook, for example. The example I gave in my prepared remarks was with reference to the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was live-streamed on Facebook to a potential audience north of 2 billion peo

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I do. For sure.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. Journalism is something that somebody does. It's not a licensed profession or anything like that. A diversity of perspectives is very important, but I would like to draw a line between the act of saying something and the act of having that thing retransmitted and prom

Canadian Heritage committee  If the problem with Facebook is that they're basically prepared to do anything and everything in order to maintain attention, including showing some of this vile, awful stuff, which is bred into our evolution, then having a broadcaster or a media company like the CBC, which has a

Canadian Heritage committee  We are not part of the CBC and we don't participate in production decisions, which is probably a good thing. But I agree with you that programming needs to reflect all of Canada as it is, and where it's going, to challenge us to be a better country. Here I would come back to wh

Canadian Heritage committee  They have increased it twice.

Canadian Heritage committee  These companies are not charities. They therefore charge the highest price they think they can get. This includes taxes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have left economic theory behind in the past, but I agree with you that all parties, Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats, have the opportunity to adopt this policy. It makes sense and can help us to fund public services.

Canadian Heritage committee  People are opposed to the Netflix tax; no one has ever proposed it.

Canadian Heritage committee  People are opposed to it. So it's political.