Bargaining framework to take shape this year as Online News Act regulations unveiled

The CRTC plans to publish the framework and code of conduct for negotiations this summer, while the government says 'it takes two to negotiate' of impasse with Meta.

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge told reporters that the government is 'looking at every tool we can use to persuade Facebook and Meta that their platform is better with news content on it.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STEPHEN JEFFERY

January 8, 2024

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) plans to have a mandatory bargaining system in place between tech platforms and news companies either later this year or in early 2025 following the official publication of regulations for the Online News...

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