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There are economic reasons Canadians are souring on Canada's ambitious immigration targets, but anyone who raises challenges is accused of racism, True North's Andrew Lawton says.

Meta’s decision to block news content from their platforms in Canada as a response to the federal government’s Online News Act has led to major broadcasters like the CBC calling upon Canada’s Competition Bureau to investigate the tech company. 

According to the Globe and Mail, Pascale St-Onge said that there will be no compromise with tech giants despite bringing a fresh face to the role. 

In this special edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Andrew is joined by Kris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Matt Hatfield from OpenMedia, Frontier Centre contributor Roland Renner and True North's William McBeath to discuss C-18 and C-11.

"Trudeau did not answer when reporters asked why former public safety minister Marco Mendicino, former justice minister David Lametti and former president of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier were shown the door."

BC NDP premier David Eby is following in the footsteps of the federal Liberal government by pulling advertisements from Facebook and Instagram, however, his party is continuing to run ad campaigns on Meta’s platforms.

Google has expanded the availability of its artificial-intelligence-based chatbot Bard to most countries in the world, except for Canada and totalitarian regimes like North Korea. 

This week on the Alberta Roundup with Rachel Emmanuel, Rachel analyzes what CBC News got wrong earlier this year and why their response doesn’t go far enough.

Google and Meta have warned the government on multiple occasions that it would take drastic measures should the law pass Parliament. Further, industry experts have criticized the bill, going as far as calling it a “shakedown.” However, the government has insisted on pushing through the controversial piece of legislation. 

While in Cancún, Mexico, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai pressed Liberal International Trade Minister Mary Ng to drop impending digital services taxes on American products.