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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

The approach has huge implications: it means there are no standards for news organizations, it could lead to foreign services forum shopping into the Canadian system, it may exclude legitimate, smaller Canadian organizations who don’t meet the employee threshold, and it opens the door to television and radio broadcasters.