CanadaPolitics

I don’t know how you could call that anything other than a failure.

I just told you, defeat comes if/when they rollback legislation without getting anything in return. Meta is holding the audience hostage, while Canadian politicians and local media constantly attack Facebook aiming for reputational harm. Same happened in Australia and eventually Meta folded and local media won.

I'm not betting money that things will go the same way here because the political landscape and the legislation are different. Still, it's pretty clear that the current situation of public arm-wrestling was very expected by anyone who has been paying attention to similar legislation elsewhere. It is noteworthy that the ban was already over in a few days in Australia, so the fight already looks different this time.

Also, if they do rollback the law under the condition that Meta has to negotiate deals with media companies directly, that's still a win. The goal here is to extract money from them, and it's still quite feasible that this will happen in the next few weeks, so it's not a failure yet.