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Information & Ethics committee Obviously this is a very private matter that I would not like to share with the committee. I get paid fairly, like any other CEO of a company.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee To be honest, I'll have to get back to you on that and ask our legal counsel. Clearly, we are living in Canada. We abide by Canadian law.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee For sure.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee First, we are very sorry if this has caused any impact on victims. We are very proud that we built a product that gets 170 million people visiting a day, four million Canadians, 30% of them women. Don't you believe if those four million Canadians who come to our site every day s
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee At the beginning of 2010, MindGeek was called Manwin. It was owned by a German gentleman. His name was Fabian Thylmann, who resided in Europe. In 2013, he sold the company to a group of people, and I'll walk you through them. When he sold it in 2013, we became MindGeek. David a
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee His name is Bernard Bergemar and he owns over 50%. He is a passive investor and is not involved in daily activities. The European structure of the company dates from over 10 years ago.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee We abide by Canadian laws. There's no need of Cyprus. The structure and the company being European does not—
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee Maybe I can step back and explain the level of responsibilities enough to make it clear to the whole committee. Level one responsibility is that when somebody uploads a video to our website, he or she agrees to comply with our terms of service, which clearly state that he must h
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee Correct.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee I'll come to that.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee Again, with the limited information we have.... It is very surprising for me that she had to act like somebody else. Our procedure is exactly the same—
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee I respectfully disagree with this notion. We've always been improving our procedures. Yes, our system is not perfect, like any other video-sharing platform, adult or non-adult. Just recently, two weeks ago, a publicly traded video-sharing platform got sued by somebody—
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee We can always improve and we can always do better.
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon
Information & Ethics committee We started contacting a very reputable law firm in New York at the beginning of 2020, so a year ago. We signed a contract with them in April 2020. They came up with recommendations to improve our procedures. This has been in the works since almost a year ago. Yes, it was implemen
February 5th, 2021Committee meeting
Feras Antoon