Manitoba Tories come out against federal Bill C-18
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This article was published 07/07/2023 (1062 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Neither the Manitoba Government nor the governing Progressive Conservative Party of Canada have plans to stop buying ads on Facebook or Instagram after the passage of the federal Online News Act.
Bill C-18, which received royal assent last month after passing in the Senate, requires tech giants to pay for news content shared through their platforms.
After the bill’s passage, both Google and Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, have threatened to block links to Canadian news article in retaliations.
In a tit-for-tat move, the federal and Quebec governments announced earlier this week that they would suspend media purchases on Meta platforms with negotiations still ongoing with Google. However, both the federal Liberals and the NDP both said their parties would continue to buy ads on the platforms.
Provincial government press secretary Miranda Dubé sent a statement to the Sun Thursday evening attributed to an unnamed government spokesperson saying Manitoba would not follow the other governments’ actions.
“The government supports freedom of speech and does not support federal Bill C-18 and at this time will not be following suit with the federal government in regards to activity on Meta platforms.”
Through an email, an unnamed spokesperson for the Progressive Conservatives sent a similar statement.
“The PC Party does not support Bill C-18 and we will continue to engage with Manitobans through Meta platforms. We will continue to stand up for free speech.”
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont told the Sun his party was still deciding what it would do, especially as the province is headed into a provincial election this fall.
Read more in Saturday’s edition of the Sun.
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