MPs voted down a change to the Liberal government’s online news bill proposed by a group of independent online publishers, a day after a Liberal MP on the committee apologized for saying digital outlets don’t produce news.
The House of Commons heritage committee is currently in the process of amending Bill C-18, which would force Google and Facebook parent company Meta to share revenue with Canadian news publishers, revenue that could end up funding an estimated 30 per cent of the cost of producing news in Canada.
At a committee meeting Tuesday, Lisa Hepfner said that “we see hundreds of news outlets have closed since 2008 in this country, and we’ll see the argument that a couple hundred other online news organizations have popped up in that time, what we don’t see is that they’re not news.”
“They’re not gathering news. They’re publishing opinion only.”
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