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Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES/Adrian Wyld
OTTAWA The Trudeau government is unlikely to pass a bill that would make social media companies help pay for news ahead of a widely anticipated fall election.
OTTAWA The Trudeau government is unlikely to pass a bill that would make social media companies help pay for news ahead of a widely anticipated fall election.
In an interview, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault blamed opposition wrangling over unrelated legislation. Our agenda regarding web giants is an ambitious one, Guilbeault told the
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Welcome to Corridors. We’ve been sharing this space with contributors as obsessed as we are with policy and Canadian politics. Today’s guest host is Sean Speer, editor at large at The Hub (thehub.ca), a new digital media platform focused on Canadian policy and governance. He is also the PPF Scotiabank Fellow at the Public Policy Forum and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Sean previously served as a senior economic adviser to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Over to you, Sean.
Ditto on the second day.
In one interview with the
CBC, he twisted himself into knots trying to explain why a clause in Bill C-10 that excluded certain social media from regulation was deleted.
He then said the government had no interest regulating social media, and stepped in it again in another interview by saying that social media users with a large number of followers might attract some regulation.
Within a day, however, Guilbeault was reeling that statement back, stating he “should have been more precise,” all which completed his second clawback in as many days.
The government’s true intention is therefore anybody’s guess if Guilbeault remains the only source for clarification.