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Official Dept of Justic Charter Statement: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html

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Now the government is crying because rather than paying up, Facebook told them to stuff it and turned off the taps.

Entirely predictable to everyone except bureaucrats. Why should Facebook bargain? They’re in a position of power over the govt.

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ConTheLibrarian reply

They really pulled a spez on this one.

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