Canadian Heritage committee  No, not at all. The issue is to determine how to make the smallest players eligible and how they can be provided with a level of support that enables them to get by. I note that the Guidance on the income tax measures to support journalism sets out the rules to be followed in or

Canadian Heritage committee  We have a choice. We are not forced to do business with Google, Meta, Twitter or Apple. We choose to put our content on those platforms because the discoverability funnel and the megaphone that those companies represent are much more powerful and supportive than our own. Today,

Canadian Heritage committee  I perfectly understand the question, but I'm not allowed to give an answer regarding the amounts. Those were two private corporations that made confidential deals. However, I can state that Le Devoir was profitable before those deals, and that the secret of our success relies on

Canadian Heritage committee  I will willingly give the amounts if there's a law in place. If we're obliged to do so, I will inform the CRTC of the amounts; however, I cannot do it now. As far as the sense of fairness is concerned, I guess you can boost the LJI. You can ask the provincial governments to do t

Canadian Heritage committee  I am going to add to what Mr. Jamison said earlier. I belong to the school of thought that wants a bundle of measures to support the news media. We didn't say it, but we believe that all of the federal programs contained in the Budget Impementation Act, 2019, No. 1, should be ret

Canadian Heritage committee  The bundle of measures and diversity of revenue are key to the future for the news media.

Canadian Heritage committee  We must first call things what they are and pay real attention to them, in order to accomplish something appreciable. I stress that we, the francophone media in Quebec or outside Quebec, are always in an anglophone North American ocean. When we bargain with Silicon Valley compani

Canadian Heritage committee  The agreements were signed by two private enterprises and are subject to confidentiality clauses, and so I cannot tell you the answer today. However, I reiterate that we are going to adhere to the legislative environment and the legislation that results from the passage of this

Canadian Heritage committee  I would reiterate that these agreements are confidential. However, the reason we made the effort of signing them is that it was important. It has enabled us to take a significant step forward in our digital transformation. Le Devoir's model is unique. We base our operation on s

Canadian Heritage committee  People say all the time that data is the oil of the digital age. Take the example of an application environment like Apple News+. When someone subscribes to Apple News+, they become a customer of Apple News+, and Apple, not Le Devoir, retains their email address. Without the ema

Canadian Heritage committee  I am now going to make a few quick comments about how Bill C‑18 could be improved. The imbalance in the market is not just a question of advertising. There is also an imbalance when it comes to subscriptions. The application platforms decide what percentage of revenue they will

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Distinguished members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, thank you for having me here today. Le Devoir is a newspaper of record that is not like the others. It is part of a select club of media that rely on subscriptions, for both the digital