Thank you for the question, MP Thomas.
The concepts of “making available” or ”facilitating access to” are really intended, again, to.... The primary driver behind this bill, if we could go back to first principles, is recognizing that Canadians use these services in order to access news content. Primarily, it's that idea of facilitating access to it.
We've heard the debate around whether linking should be included or not, but the government's position is that you need to include it because, at its core, that is what it means to facilitate access to news content in the modern digital environment.
Regarding the example you give, in a context where Facebook has made the business decision to essentially prevent the ability of users to link to news articles but an individual is quoting from a particular news article without a link, no, I do not believe that would engage or trigger the application of the act..