I'm seriously concerned about that.
With regard to the $1 billion subsidy, I believe you're referring to section 19 of the Income Tax Act. Yes, that makes no sense.
You say that what happens online has an impact in real life. That's what I'm afraid of. I'm also greatly concerned about news-link blocking. Many people, especially our younger fellow citizens, conduct their entire lives on their cell phones. Their lives essentially take place online, on social media, and information is excluded from what they see on social media. If that continues, my impression is that people will think there's no such thing as information, that verified journalistic information doesn't exist. There will only be influencers.