How does forcing some companies to pay to link TO a news story (and send traffic to that new story) do anything other than give an incentive not to link to news

How does forcing some companies to pay to link TO a news story (and send traffic to that new story) do anything other than give an incentive not to link to news stories any more? How is making it impossible to discover news stories good for Canadian media? How is it good for Canadian citizens and Canadian democracy? The underpinning concept in HTML is: My document can link to your document without asking, and without cost. This whole, if you send traffic to me you have to pay me for it is backwards.