CanadaOnline News Act Application and Exemption Regulations
In force since .
A news media bargaining code rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- Applies to a search engine or social media platform with global revenue exceeding C$1 billion and at least 20 million Canadian monthly unique visitors (search) or active users (social media).
- If you are the largest search engine by Canadian advertising market share, provide at least C$100 million per year (indexed to CPI by formula) to news businesses as a condition of exemption eligibility.
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Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- How does a social media service count the "active users" in Canada per month for subparagraph 2(b)(ii), for example whether a logged-out visitor or a dormant account counts?
- Does the "total revenue from all sources" of the operator in paragraph 2(a) include the revenue of its affiliates, or only its own?
- What conduct is "merely facilitating access to news content" under subsection 6(2), for which an agreement need not provide consideration?
What this law does
Sets the thresholds triggering the Online News Act: global revenue exceeding C$1 billion and at least 20 million Canadian monthly unique visitors (search) or active users (social media). Requires the largest search engine by Canadian advertising market share to provide at least C$100 million per year (CPI-indexed via formula: C$100M × CPIx ÷ CPI2023) to news businesses as a condition of exemption eligibility. Published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, Vol. 158, No. 1 (); in force .
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