Canadian Heritage committee  Just briefly, I'll re-emphasize the points I made in my opening comments. First, I think we have to make sure that deals are equitable for small and large news outlets alike. Second, we ought to make sure that new revenues are used for the production of news content and not for

Canadian Heritage committee  I think other countries have the same problem that you're facing in Canada, and they're coming up with similar solutions. I know you've heard from Rod Sims, who has done this in Australia. The Australian model has a lot of lessons to be taken from it. Everybody faces the same p

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll use the newsstand analogy that just came up in the last round of questions. Imagine that the newsstand industry in Canada was owned by one company with a 90% market share. They took 80 cents out of every dollar of advertising that went to every newspaper that put their pap

Canadian Heritage committee  I think you can bake that into the criteria reviewed by the regulator when they look at the deals and make sure the companies receiving these commercial agreements can demonstrate that they're putting money into the production of news. I think most publishers would be very happy

Canadian Heritage committee  Those are numbers from the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Canadian Heritage committee  The third piece is transparency. We have to ensure that the terms of these deals are subject to rigorous regulatory oversight and as much transparency as the industry will bear. That ensures that these negotiations don't fall into the trap we're in now, where secret deals are mad

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to this committee. My name is Ben Scott. I'm the director of Reset. We are an international non-profit organization that works with governments to help realign the incentives of the technology industry back to support the values of democrac