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2020-02-04 Great White North
Trudeau cabinet minister: all news websites must now get a government licence
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Posted by Woodrow 2020-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 I cannot wait to see this bureaucrat give a license to www.trudeauinblackface.com.
Posted by Airandee 2020-02-04 05:50||   2020-02-04 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 So? They've all been censored into obedient dogs for years. Now the takeover is becoming even more blatant.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-02-04 07:42||   2020-02-04 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Just think... if Hillary had won we would be facing this in the US.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-02-04 08:21||   2020-02-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm slowly but surely getting unwanted experience in Canadian tax law. It seems that US companies doing certain business in Canada (submitting an invoice is sufficient business activity) withhold 15% for Canadian tax, and you can get all of it back by filing a return. So far my client's been waiting on the CRA to issue a business number (like our EIN / FID number) since early May of last year and I have to submit (more) paperwork so I can represent my client before them (like our Power of Attorney forms) to find out where that business number issue stands. $10 says they lost it and we have to resubmit it.

I don't think I'm getting them that refund for .them anytime soon
Posted by Raj 2020-02-04 08:22||   2020-02-04 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Froggies, the water's getting hot. Are you paying attention?
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 08:29||   2020-02-04 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ...his assertion that every single website that can be read or clicked in Canada needs a license.

I don't think he knows how the internet works...
Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-04 09:06||   2020-02-04 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Nice way to push half of an industry to the US.
Posted by Ebboluns Shong6204 2020-02-04 09:50||   2020-02-04 09:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I think that actions like this by the Trudeau regime will contribute to the breakup of Canada.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-04 10:36||   2020-02-04 10:36|| Front Page Top

#9 This would be used to legitimize subjecting Canadian resident to a sophisticated censorship infrastructure a la chinoise.

Also they'd make examples out of especially annoying Danadian websites like RebelNews.

Defiance of this law by small websites not explicitly exposed to Canada's jurisdiction is not without risk.

Something as simple as a flight transiting through a country that is willing to extradite might force web journalists to physically confront Canada's judicial system.

They won't and can't go after everyone but the will try to set examples in order to intimidate.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-02-04 12:16||   2020-02-04 12:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think he knows how the internet works...

Which is why they will need more laws, more licenses and fee, more regulations. Perhaps an official port foreigners must go through and purchase a tacking cookie visa of sorts.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-04 12:26||   2020-02-04 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 So Canada will force Internet providers to block the sites that don't have licences? or do they think they will be able to use international law to shut down sites that don't have Canadian licences but still are available in Canada? This is laughable.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-04 14:32||   2020-02-04 14:32|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't think he knows how the internet works...

America gives up Internet Control To the UN
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-04 15:22||   2020-02-04 15:22|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm waiting for that move of Provinces to seek Sate status with the US to rise up again.
Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-02-04 19:25||   2020-02-04 19:25|| Front Page Top

#14 None of the three website links worked.
Posted by Slasing Clans8484  2020-02-04 20:16||   2020-02-04 20:16|| Front Page Top

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