Wed Aug 30, 2023 – 4:08 pm EDTWed Aug 30, 2023 – 5:19 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Canadians could be blocked from sharing news on Facebook and Instagram until after the federal election as a result of the Trudeau government’s Online News Act.
On August 24, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that the negotiations between the government and media companies about the implementation of Bill C-18, also know as the Online News Act, may not be completed until the year 2025, the same year Canadians are expecting to hit the polls for another federal election.
Due to this delay, and because Meta – the parent company of Facebook and Instagram – has already begun to block Canadians from viewing news content shared on its platforms in the interim, Canadians could be left without access to news on Facebook and Instagram until after the next election.
“This demonstrates once again how [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau and his radical Liberals destroy everything they touch,” Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews. “In the name of improving and ‘protecting’ our internet experience, Trudeau has instead deprived Canadians of news and information.”
Canada’s Senate passed the Online
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