Canadians to Decide If Online Harms Regulator Is Bureaucracy or Enforcement: PBO

Canadians to Decide If Online Harms Regulator Is Bureaucracy or Enforcement: PBO
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear before the Senate Committee on National Finance, in Ottawa, on October 17, 2023. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux suggests it’s up to Canadians to decide whether they believe the government’s proposal to create a new regulator against online harms amounts to bureaucracy, or a necessary enforcement tool.

Last week Mr. Giroux issued a cost estimate for the government’s new online harms legislation would cost around $201 million over five years based on an estimate from Canadian Heritage that it will take up to 300 staff to enforce it.