Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, I said, “I don't know.”

Canadian Heritage committee  I think there were a number of people involved. I'm not really part of the Canadian team any more, as you appreciate, but I think this is concerning on the global level. I don't think, as I said in the opening statement, that we haven't seen—

Canadian Heritage committee  —any democracy make an attempt to put a value on links, which is concerning—

Canadian Heritage committee  As president of global affairs, he would have been.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, it is a pleasure to once again be before you today. My name is Kevin Chan, and I'm a global policy director at Meta Platforms. I am here with my colleague Rachel Curran, our head of public policy in Canada. Mad

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, did you want me to answer?

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I think the challenge, and perhaps it gets to the heart of Bill C-18, is that what we're talking about when we talk about what's on these platforms and on the Internet is people's speech. People's speech is subject to different considerations, I dare say, than what an edito

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to see the transcript. I don't think I've ever used the word “tax”. First of all, that has to be clear. Second—I'm sorry I have to point this out, but the logic escapes me, so I have to say this—the best commercial deals, I hope, are always going to lead to innovative

Canadian Heritage committee  It was a general point. You know this—

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, my goodness, this is a finance question. I honestly don't know, but I think you're right in stating.... As any good finance official will tell you, taxes can be notoriously leaky, and I think that's something that everybody should think about generally but, obviously, we hav

Canadian Heritage committee  What I said was that the commercial arrangements that we have established with various publishers were to incentivize new behaviour that would spur digital innovation.

Canadian Heritage committee  I wouldn't want to call—

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, what we understand is that Canadians want less news on Facebook, not more. I think you're right that users may want to see good information. That's why we partner, for example, with the Public Health Agency of Canada. That's why we partner with Elections Canada. It's to get

Canadian Heritage committee  I do, because if you look at the way it's constructed, the bill is globally unprecedented in its scope. It ingests any possible definition of any news content, down to the unprecedented definition of a hyperlink. I'll give you one very simple example. If you go to your favourite