Canadian Heritage committee  —journalism available to Canadians, there are more straightforward ways to do that than trying to do it in this way, where you're intervening in the market, but from a sideways perspective. I'm not sure that was very articulate. I hope it helps.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I have not. I'm a completely independent voice. I used to be on the CBC payroll, until 2007, but since 2007, I have taken no money from anybody tangentially, potentially, definitely or at all involved in Bill C-18.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I can. In my opinion, the debates about whether Bill C-18 literally constitutes a link tax are hairsplitting. They are a bit beside the point. The whole basis of the legislation is the notion that making available material or facilitating access to it is taking value from

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you so much for inviting me to speak today. I was a journalist in Canada for 10 years, working in radio, television and online. I used to run cbc.ca. I used to run the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the non-profit that operates Wikipedia. That makes me the only Canadian to