Commentary Canada’s attempts to play the tough guy took some laughable turns last weekend as those leading the fight couldn’t have made it more clear that politicians need Facebook a lot more than it needs politicians. The week began with a macho enough veneer. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez held a news conference in which—as a…
Peter Menzies: Online News Act Debacle Was All Very Predictable
July 10, 2023
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Ottawa Suspending Its Advertising on Facebook, Instagram as Meta Moves to Block Canadian News
The federal government is suspending all of its advertising on both Facebook and Instagram in response to their parent company, Meta, saying it will block all Canadian news from the platforms later this year once Ottawa’s new Online News Act comes into effect. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez made the announcement while speaking to reporters in…
Nearly 80 Canadian Media Outlets Have Closed Since 2020 Despite Federal Subsidies: Document
Nearly 80 Canadian news outlets have closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 despite the federal government previously introducing $595 million in media subsidies intended to support the sector, according to an internal briefing note. “Since the beginning of the pandemic 78 news outlets closed including 65 community newspapers,” said a briefing…
ANALYSIS: Broadcasting Experts Say Online News Act Poorly Drafted and Harmful to News Media
As Google and Meta prepare to remove Canadians’ access to news links on their platforms due to the recently passed Bill C-18, two broadcasting experts say the legislation is poorly composed and will harm media outlets instead of helping them. “It’s a sad, somewhat tragic outcome of a very, very poorly composed piece of legislation…
Make Online News Laws and Federal Subsidies a Voting Issue, Tory MP Urges
June 29, 2023
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With ongoing merger talks between two of Canada’s largest news publishers, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is urging Canadians to make recent legislation and federal subsidies affecting media outlets across the country a voting issue in the next general election. “For all the subsidies and interventions the Liberals have put in place since coming to…
Heritage Minister Rejects Senate Amendment to Bill C-18 That Aimed to Prevent Facebook From Blocking Canadian News
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has rejected a Senate amendment to the Online News Act, Bill C-18, that aimed to prevent Facebook from blocking news for Canadian readers on its platform in reaction to the bill. Speaking in the House of Commons on June 19, Rodriguez accepted most of the Senate’s proposed amendments to the bill,…
Feds Will Introduce ‘Online Safety Bill’ by This Fall, Says Heritage Minister
The Liberal government will be introducing its long-awaited bill aimed at targeting online hate speech and misinformation by this fall at the latest, says Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. Rodriguez told MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on May 29 that his department will be “coming up with something very shortly”…
Peter Menzies: If the CRTC Bans Fox News From Canadian Airwaves, It Must Also De-list China’s CCTV-4
May 8, 2023
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Commentary Canada has become a country that harbours a higher level of tolerance for Chinese communism than it does for American conservatism. That’s a conclusion that’s easy to draw from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) May 3 decision to act swiftly on a complaint from the LGBTQ2 advocacy group, Egale, which has asked…
Peter Menzies: With Bill C-11 Now Law, What to Watch Out for to Fight Online Censorship
Commentary As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees. It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking…
90% of Canadians Voiced Opposition to Federal ‘Online Harms’ Proposal: Report
A large majority of Canadians voiced concerns over Ottawa’s proposed “online harms” legislation, but this information was not included in the government’s report summarizing the results of the consultation, according to Canadian lawyer and academic Michael Geist. Ninety percent of Canadians who responded to a previous federal public consultation seeking feedback on Ottawa’s proposed “online harms” legislation…
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