Mr. Kevin Chan at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On January 29th, 2021. See this statement in context.

January 29th, 2021 / 2:30 p.m.

Global Director and Head of Public Policy, Facebook Canada, Facebook Inc.

I think that your suggestion of having publishers and platforms talk is a very good one.

I was personally a bit troubled that those conversations had not happened before we heard very loud and aggressive commentary about our stealing content, which was false.

I think that if we had had productive conversations earlier, and if we had actually talked to each other, we'd probably be in a much better situation than we are today.

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