Senate committee begins study of C-18 amidst ‘strange atmosphere’ of threats from Google

It would be ‘silly not to acknowledge’ the possibility that tech giants could follow through on threats to stop indexing news results in Canada, said internet law expert Michael Geist.

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is responsible for Bill C-11 and Bill C-18. The Senate Transport and Communications Committee recently amended C-11, and will begin its study of C-18 this week.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

April 26, 2023

The Senate committee that made major amendments to the government’s online streaming bill, C-11, is beginning its study of another key piece of internet legislation—the online news bill, C-18—under what one senator described as a “strange atmosphere” wherein one of...

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