Menzies, a Senior Fellow with the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute, former publisher of the Calgary Herald, and a past vice-chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, says that Canada’s efforts to defend democracy have become a fiasco and a legislative failure.

            “The drafters of this legislation were determined to position the Trudeau government internationally as a world leader in bringing Big Tech to heel. In doing so, they failed to listen to critics who pointed out that putting a price on links was a foolish way to go about it. And, while fueling wild expectations of a new and lucrative income stream for domestic news organizations, the drafters forgot (or chose to ignore) the reality that no executive in any industry would agree to a deal in which there was no cap on his or her company’s potential liability”.

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