It may have warned publicly of consequences, but Google has not yet decided what it will do if Parliament adopts controversial legislation to force online companies to pay Canadian news organizations for content, a top executive with the tech giant told members of Parliament Thursday.
Testifying before the heritage committee on the company’s decision to run a test that blocked an estimated 1.1 million Canadian IP addresses from accessing some news for five weeks earlier this year, Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said the company still hopes Parliament will amend the proposed legislation.
“We are continuing to raise concerns about it,
