Canadian Heritage committee  I'll say that YouTube has no information about the off-platform revenue, so we wouldn't know that, but we love the diversity picture on YouTube and that is obviously something that needs more study. That is very concerning, but we have Notorious Cree, Evan Fong and Lilly Singh, w

Canadian Heritage committee  I think you are quoting from the Watchtime Canada 2019 study.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  We updated that during the pandemic, so you may be quoting from a CMF article that I co-wrote. We found that there were 160,000 Canadian entrepreneurs on YouTube. Only 25% of those, or 40,000, are part of the partner program and eligible, as you mentioned, for monetization. We o

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  A lot of them are struggling and it's interesting. We found that in the Canadian YouTube revenue picture—there is also a chart in the study about that—most Canadian YouTubers have a revenue mix of brand deals, pan-media, other books, etc. Fascinatingly, a number of channels that

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, sure.

Canadian Heritage committee  We also have 15% earning.... Let me get these numbers for you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I also think that this is a very new platform. We're only talking about 15 years of this amount of economic activity. I think that Canadians are rocking it on YouTube. They are the number one exporters of 91 countries, and there is an exuberance to keep growing this new worl

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you so very much for that question. This is a huge topic. I'll try to make a few comments in the time allotted and will be happy to follow up. First of all, from a theoretical point of view, it comes down to whether protection by data strengthens or competition strengthen

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you so much for your question. I can give a brief review of the UGC numbers and then also give you some comments on the legacy media, which is, as was mentioned earlier this morning, performing marvellously. Here's this Watchtime report. I really, truly wish you would a

Canadian Heritage committee  Hi, and thank you for inviting me. I am appearing as an individual, not on behalf of the Toronto Metropolitan University. I've been writing publicly on issues relating to Bill C-11 since 2014, when I testified at “Let's Talk TV”. Bill C-11 to me is not the visionary legislation