Some of these show a misunderstanding of the situation. > Most of the Canadian tech and indeed media industries pointed out how stupid this was, and Google and

Some of these show a misunderstanding of the situation. > Most of the Canadian tech and indeed media industries pointed out how stupid this was, and Google and Meta said that given the choice, they’d stop letting news appear rather than pay a fee they could not control and that had no economic basis. The government thought this was the first kind of ‘no’ and a bluff, but actually, it was the second kind. Oops. This was part of the intent. It was not a mistake. The goal of the Canadian government has always been to build up Canadian media. Keeping out big foreign companies is in line with that.