Monitoring internet content and adjudicating online activity will be a job-creation money pit of monumental proportions.
Public salaries grew by $3 billion in 2020 alone. Costs for “professional and special services” increased to $16.4 billion in 2019-20 — and that’s before hiring the technologists, coders, analysts, managers, and consultants to design and administer internet regulation programs.
The government’s plan to oversee Internet platforms’ compliance with CRTC conditions about their “ownership, governance and control” will need a new bureaucracy.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland expects new measures to tax foreign digital service providers would raise $6.5-billion over five years.
If that’s not enough to fund the new bureaucracies, Canadian taxpayers will be on the hook for the rest. In the meantime, before Bills C-10 and C-36 died in 2021, the CRTC had already been given $3.2 million to start work on the changes.
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