Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, again, I think we're here today to try to responsibly share at the committee our concerns about the bill. We're focused on—

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, sir, I think we're here to try to share our point of view on Canadian legislation and the misrepresentation it has of the value exchange between publishers and platforms, and the challenge that we have with paying to then have the right to provide free marketing to publish

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, as I mentioned before—

Canadian Heritage committee  I think you can appreciate that anything we would discuss is not made in isolation, that what we're trying to discuss are the concerns we have with the legislation and that we are very happy and thankful for the opportunity to discuss them today. The fact that the legislation doe

Canadian Heritage committee  A direct conversation with Mr. Zuckerberg would be somewhat above my office, sir.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't think there was ever any discussion of it in that sense. We work as a group that examines these things from a global perspective and from a local perspective, and anything that was done was part of the conversations about the impact of the bills and what they could be in

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, sir, when I look at the context of how we discuss these things, I'm privy to the communications within the group of people I work with and some of the things that happen there, but I think it's safe to presume that we are not kind of out on a limb here and sharing anything

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, this was an expression of our concerns with the bill and our concerns with the potential outcomes of the bill.

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe, sir, we expressed our concerns with the bill and wanted to be transparent about the unintended consequences it might lead to.

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe Mr. Chan was about to answer some of this question, as well. I think the movement of our users.... As he indicated, the preference of our users is moving away from news. We see that in independent reporting, as well. We see that in the Reuters Digital News Report, wher

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. Again, I'm not sure how many other ways I can answer this question, other than that I wasn't involved in Australia. I understand that some mistakes were made. We've talked about those mistakes. We want to avoid that outcome again, which is why we want

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, I was not involved in Australia.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. It is an important point of reference to consider that we do have the world's largest fact-checking network program of any platform. It includes 90 fact-checkers accredited by the international fact-checking network, which is a subsidiary of the Poynter Institute. Ou

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, again, I believe we've expressed the point that there were mistakes made, which we have been public about. Again, our engagement here today is to talk about our concerns with the legislation in front of us, and concerns about the—

Canadian Heritage committee  —representation of the relationship between publishers and—