Tech giants would find loophole in Conservative threshold amendment on C-18: Liberals

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – A Conservative amendment that would place monetary thresholds on which companies qualify for CRTC regulation under new legislation would allow those companies to skirt the rules, according to a Liberal MP Tuesday during a House Heritage committee hearing. In its current form, Bill C-18, the Online News Act, would give the CRTC the ability to determine which companies must compensate news publishers to host on their platforms links to news articles. But the Conservatives are proposing an amendment that would place limits on the application of this law by the size of the company. “I guess...