OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically unable to sell political advertisements on its platforms in a way that would comply with Bill C-76. The bill, which became law in December last year, requires online platforms to create a database of political and partisan ads sold during the course of the 2019 election. They have to set up the databases by June 30. “It was simply not feasible for us to implement the extensive changes...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process simplified, its government relations counsel told members of Parliament Thursday, but at the same time he said a legislative overhaul of the Copyright Act isn’t necessary...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada told members of Parliament Tuesday they don’t see themselves as “arbiters of truth” in...
OTTAWA — Creating the oft-asked-for level playing field by making foreign digital services subject to Canadian sales tax would hurt smaller companies trying to break into the country’s market, a House of Commons...
The CRTC said Monday it will remove all evidence presented by Netflix Inc. and Google Inc., including oral and written presentations, from the Let’s Talk TV process, following the...
GATINEAU, Que. — A move by the CRTC to regulate over-the-top (OTT) video platforms could set a precedent for regulators in other countries, a Google Inc. lawyer told the commission on the first...
Tanya Woods, director and legal counsel for regulatory and copyright law at BCE Inc., is leaving to become vice-president of policy and legal affairs the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, The Lobby Monitor reported. The article said Woods is replacing Jason Kee, who joined Google Inc. in November to do public policy and government relations work. Woods has held a number of positions in government with stints at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Industry Canada, the Copyright Board of Canada and Public Works....
Jason Kee is leaving the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) to join Google Inc.’s public policy team. Kee, ESAC’s former director of policy and legal affairs, said in an interview Friday that he will join Google’s Ottawa office as the company’s new public policy and government relations counsel in Canada. “I’ll be supporting all of Google’s public policy and any...
