Facebook has warned it would take away Canadians’ ability to access and share news on its platform if the bill passes without significant changes
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has rejected a key Senate change to Bill C-18, the online news bill, dismissing a last-ditch attempt to prevent Facebook from restricting Canadians’ access to news on its platform.
In one of the final hurdles before it becomes law, Mr. Rodriguez accepted most of the Senate’s amendments to the bill, including one imposing financial penalties for leaking media organizations’ confidential financial information. “This was a pragmatic and reasonable amendment that added clarity to the bill,” said Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne, who proposed the change. “It was not in any way an amendment proposed by the platforms but it was to try to clarify some of the vagueness that has been talked about by Google.”One example would be incorporating in agreements the value of training and other services the tech giants may offer news organizations.
But Conservative heritage critic Rachael Thomas said the bill “kills newspapers” by prompting platforms to no longer share links to news. “While it will blame the tech giants, its ill-considered policy of mandating payments for links sits at the foundation of this epic miscalculation,” he said. Facebook has said the value its platform offers to publishers should be a factor in negotiations, saying it gives them free marketing worth more than $230-million a year.
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