Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much.

Canadian Heritage committee  Marc, you're closer to this than I am. I don't know if you have a thought on that.

Canadian Heritage committee  This is a recommendation engine. We're very public about it. We've had a post about this for some time now. We can send that to you as well, sir, so you can read up on how that works.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we do. Right now, if you were to search on Facebook or Instagram—and I know you've spoken with Rachel about this as well—for the Holocaust, for child exploitation or for COVID, in all those cases, we redirect. For COVID, most importantly, we redirect to the Public Health Ag

Canadian Heritage committee  We partner directly with the organization. That's why we need to be absolutely clear. For example, during an election, we might partner with Elections Canada, as we have in the last two federal elections, to redirect directly back to the URL that Elections Canada has provided.

Canadian Heritage committee  That is a good question. I would submit to you that, again, we have a global framework for these things. We apply the same infrastructure around the world. Don't take my word for it. The media, academics and the government itself have said there was no material interference in t

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's right.

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, I want to commend your [Technical difficulty—Editor] and racism. That is obviously something—

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Waugh, again, I want to characterize it the way it has been, which is that exiting the news market was the only response to a proposal that didn't respect the realities of how the Internet works. I would say that in Canada, we've seen examples of this. For example, if we lo

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, as I've said elsewhere, that is not something that Marc or I or Rachel are working towards. We're working towards, and again I take it back to my opening statement.... We're working very hard and collaboratively with news publishers every day. We talked about the Winnipeg

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Waugh, our concern with Australia was very much that the framework, it appeared, was going to help only the big media conglomerates.

Canadian Heritage committee  I defer to your judgment on that, sir. We're very much concerned with a framework that wouldn't allow us to support local news publishers. While the future of news will involve all sorts of players, big and small, we are obviously sensitive to the fact that there are new models

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry. What do you mean by that?

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, if I understand the question correctly, [Technical difficulty—Editor] talking about, to be honest, which is that we're talking about user-generated content. The frameworks will be different. A framework about what people can and cannot say is different from the framework tha

Canadian Heritage committee  No, absolutely not. Unfortunately, Professor Roy is once again misinformed; this is not the case.