Canada will soon make Internet companies pay news publishers to use their content. Canada’s Liberal Party has introduced new legislation that requires companies like Facebook, Google, and other online firms to compensate news outlets for reproducing or easing access to the content. [This is very similar to what happened in Australia]

Companies that won’t pay publishers will be subject to binding arbitration led by the CRTC. The CRT C is also going to be deciding the news sources that qualify for compensation. Pablo Rodriguez [Heritage Minister] said that the news industry was in crisis and that publishers cannot rely on ad revenue as they had in the past. In the past, they’ve maintained that publishers benefited from the traffic driven to their websites through search results and social media posts.

They also threatened disabling services rather than paying publishers, although Google Dead Cave in Australia struck deals avoiding an arbitration battle.