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Melanie Aitken on Competition in the Digital Economy

June 19, 2020
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Melanie Aitken comments in a Financial Post story on how Canada’s federal government is studying how Australia and France are levelling the playing field between news producers and global online aggregators such as Facebook Inc. and Google LLC.

Melanie says the road to a Canadian solution is likely to be much longer and more complicated. Most importantly, she said, it would require significant and widespread political will. “There is many a slip between lip and cup,” she says. 

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