Peter Menzies: The Feds Have Surrendered to Google Over Online News Act. Now What?

Published on November 30, 2023

Commentary  The tawdry tale of Canada’s Online News Act took what is likely to be its final twist this week when the federal government announced it had reached an agreement with Google to fund news organizations. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge, as expected, termed the deal “historic” and insisted there were “absolutely no concessions” on the government’s part. How her nose did not grow at least two feet longer while saying this is quite beyond me. Because the facts of the matter are that for the past two months, the government and the news industry lobbyists who promoted the act (Bill C-18) have been desperately trying to placate Google in order to prevent it from doing what Meta had already done—block news links in Canada....

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