Canadian Heritage committee  It is unfortunate. As I said, I believe a healthy media ecosystem is an ecosystem that has all different players—strong and healthy players that can sustain themselves. I believe that one hundred per cent. I do not believe it should come at the hindrance of people who took a ri

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not greedy. Maybe if more people who are leading the companies had the same mindset, we wouldn't be where we are today, but—

Canadian Heritage committee  It has had an impact.

Canadian Heritage committee  It has had an impact. I'm hoping that as things are fleshed out, we can be made whole, as the minister at the time said.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Leading up to before August, we were hiring a journalist every single month. That's how fast we were growing. Look at one of our pages. Just on Instagram alone, the average number of Canadians we were reaching every 30 days was 35 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. One thing we found that was so fascinating about the digital landscape was that we didn't look at what we were doing as a Canadian thing. We thought that with our stories, we connected with support globally. I thought that was really fascinating. What we have in this count

Canadian Heritage committee  The quality of journalism is in the understanding that trained journalists are going to be good journalists. How journalists progress in their careers is based on the quality of leadership they have and whether they have good leadership and good news producers who are constantly

Canadian Heritage committee  I just want to make sure...because I'm hearing a bit of a theme here that if you're doing digital, quality might suffer. That's not the case. You have to go through the same ethics and the same steps to produce a proper report, whether it's on TV, on radio, in the paper—in anythi

Canadian Heritage committee  That's based on the outlet making sure that it's presenting the right information. It doesn't matter which medium you're on. You're going to have talking heads and you're going to have reporters. You're going to have opinion pieces and op-eds, and you're going to have factual rep

Canadian Heritage committee  —I've hired under me have done—we have about 10 journalists, but we have about 10 other people who are not journalists who sustain the company—is tried to be a proper reflection of the people we serve.

Canadian Heritage committee  I understand the intent of Bill C-18. We're all hearing, obviously, about the crisis that's unfolding, and of course, we don't want to lose any more journalism in this country. Any way to sustain that is a good thing. I always believe that an expanded industry is a better industr

Canadian Heritage committee  The loss of trust in legacy media is very complex and layered. There have, of course, been political attacks against the media industry; this is not fair and should never have happened. There's also an onus on legacy media to fill the gaps that I identified, with storytelling and

Canadian Heritage committee  We had an audience that was glad we were creating content and doing so in such a way that they could receive it and access it. One thing we learned during the pandemic, which is why I left legacy media, was that there was a gap between getting information and getting it to Canad

Canadian Heritage committee  What are they left with? They're left with blogs run by people who do not care, who do not have ethics, who do not have any form of care for how news is presented and who can put anything online.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. As a little background about me, I'm a former broadcaster. I used to work for Bell Media and Corus Entertainment. I started my career in the second-smallest market in this country, in northwestern British Columbia, in the town of Smithers. Before leaving mainstream me