Tories Suggest CBC Could Get a Third of Google’s $100M Annual Payout

Published on November 30, 2023

Conservative Party MP Rachel Thomas has expressed concerns that public broadcaster CBC could receive the lion’s share of Google’s $100 million annual payment to Canadian media while smaller publishers see few benefits from the deal. Ms. Thomas, who serves as her party’s heritage critic, says she assumes CBC could be receiving $33 million based on the fact that the public broadcaster employs a third of journalists in Canada. “Your government actually claimed that this bill was about supporting local news, small outlets, that is not the case,” Ms. Thomas told Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge during her appearance at the House of Commons heritage committee on Nov. 30....

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