Bill C-18 was modeled on Australia's legislation under that system. Google and Facebook reached the elsewhere publishers that kept the news media bargaining code from kicking in, meaning neither has actually been designated as a digital platform subject to the code. So this is a backstop. But if Google and Meta remove the news content entirely, they won't have to worry about making these deals.

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