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Canada’s Bill C-18 Is an Inadvertent Blow to Censorship

Canada’s Bill C-18 Is an Inadvertent Blow to Censorship
Google Canada's Jason J. Kee, Public Policy Manager, appears via videoconference as a witness at a Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 6, 2023. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Lawrence Solomon
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Patricia Adams
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The Liberal government’s recently passed Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18, requires that tech giants like Google and Meta negotiate deals with Canadian media companies like Bell, Postmedia, and Torstar for the right to link to their Canadian content.

Lawrence Solomon is an Epoch Times columnist, a former National Post and Globe and Mail columnist, and the executive director of Toronto-based Energy Probe and Consumer Policy Institute. He is the author of seven books, including “The Deniers,” a No. 1 environmental best-seller in both the United States and Canada.
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