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Taylor Owen on Enforcing the Safe Social Media Act | CBC News

Published: 15 June 2026

Taylor Owen joined CBC News to break down Canada's newly tabled Safe Social Media Act, calling it "one of the first trials in the world" of using access restrictions as a lever to force compliance from large platforms. Owen pushes back on the idea that the bill is unenforceable on US-based tech giants, pointing to penalties of up to 3% of global revenue and to similar rules already in effect in the UK and EU as evidence that "the idea that this can't be done is a far more difficult argument" today than it once was. He adds that Canada's approach broadly aligns with peer nations, raising the cost of non-compliance and reducing the chance that platforms can simply walk away from the Canadian market.

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