Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says other countries are quietly taking Canada’s side as giant tech companies push back against his government’s Online News Act.
C-18, which passed the House of Commons in June, requires that tech giants Google and Meta pay media outlets for news content they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms.
“Countries around the world are actually — and I heard this again when I was overseas — people saying, ‘Stand strong because this really matters,’” he told host Jayme Poisson.
Earlier this month, the government released draft regulations for C-18 and estimated that Google and Meta would have to pay a combined $234 million to media outlets in order to comply.
The government said companies fall under the act if they have a total global revenue of $1 billion or more in a calendar year, “operate in a search engine or social media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada,” and have 20 million or more average monthly unique Canadian visitors or average monthly active users.
A Google spokesperson told CBC News it is still reviewing the draft regulations but the company has significant concerns.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says other countries are quietly taking Canada’s side as giant tech companies push back against his government’s Online News Act.
C-18, which passed the House of Commons in June, requires that tech giants Google and Meta pay media outlets for news content they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms.
“Countries around the world are actually — and I heard this again when I was overseas — people saying, ‘Stand strong because this really matters,’” he told host Jayme Poisson.
Earlier this month, the government released draft regulations for C-18 and estimated that Google and Meta would have to pay a combined $234 million to media outlets in order to comply.
The government said companies fall under the act if they have a total global revenue of $1 billion or more in a calendar year, “operate in a search engine or social media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada,” and have 20 million or more average monthly unique Canadian visitors or average monthly active users.
A Google spokesperson told CBC News it is still reviewing the draft regulations but the company has significant concerns.
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