I would find it a relief if Canadians could read and post news links on FB again. It's insane that we can't post articles to refute the BS that the right-wing/MAGA twits make up and spread.
The Online News Act and the Digital Services Tax Act are different pieces of legislation, and us capitulating on one isn’t going to affect the other, sorry.
ETA: You probably already know this, but it bears repeating at every opportunity: it wasn’t
the Canadian government that caused you to not be able to post news on FB, it was Meta itself, because they didn’t want to follow the legislation and pay, so they thought it was easier to just block news completely. Even though they agreed to pay in Australia, when they had previously enacted a similar piece of legislation. Canada was the canary in the coal mine, and Meta has now also refused to renew their payment agreements in Australia anymore, either. Same as with the DST, large tech companies feel they should be able to operate anywhere, without paying for anything.
Meh. It was kind of a shitty tax to begin with.
I am in favour of the DST in principle, so we will have to agree to disagree on this point. Hopefully the international community will at least double down on getting the global DST framework set up. The reason we ended up going with our own was because the global version was dragging on much too long.
If that's what we had to give up to keep the orange orangutan happy and at the negotiation table, it's not a huge loss.
Trouble is, we know “walk away” is one of Trump’s standard strategies, and now we’ve given up one of our bargaining chips with (seemingly) no concessions in return.
Besides, you know he’ll just find something else to be set off by, anyway. Oh wait, he already has, revisiting his rant against supply management on Sunday.