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As a Canadian, I applaud this. And I hope the government sticks to its guns. This is not just about "big Canadian media", it affects a lot of small outlets who draw from the journalism fund as well.

It was stupid to allow media business models to depend on monopolistic search engines and social media platforms in the first place. This stuff is like hard drugs. For everybody.

And getting off the smack is painful.

The Canadians who care about this are going to find other ways to get their news. And the ones who don't weren't part of the real readership in the first place.