We appear to be standing our ground!
Not my preferred choice of source but NatPo has more detail than some of the alternatives I saw. It includes some numbers as well as comments about the difference between Meta’s and Google’s approaches. Hint: they’re not the same, so there’s already cracks in the effort to make an example out of Canada.
Government: You’re making money off of other people writing articles. We’re going to make you pay for doing that.
Meta: Okay, we’ll stop that.
Government: No, that’s not what we wanted. We wanted you to pay the money to our industry friends. No tax-funded ads for you!
Party Official: We’re still good, right? We want a fighting chance at winning an election still.
Failing newspaper: The government is standing strong…